- Hillary Raphael
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birthdate = 1976
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occupation = Novelist
nationality = American
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website =Hillary Raphael (born
April 12 ,1976 ) is an American novelist.Raphael holds an MFA in Fiction from
Hunter College inNew York City where she won the MFA Thesis Prize for her novel, "I Love Lord Buddha" (Creation Books ). She is also known for a non-fiction book about the Japanesebutoh dance movement, "Outcast Samurai Dancer", a collaboration with Japanese culture expertDonald Richie and photographer Meital Hershkovitz. Her novel "Backpacker: New York, Seoul, Phnom Penh, Sapporo, Hong Kong, Vancouver, Mexico City, Maputo, Tokyo mon amour" was published in 2007.External links
* [http://www.neogeisha.org/ Author's Neo-Geisha site]
* [http://www.3ammagazine.com/litarchives/2005/oct/interview_hillary_raphael.shtml 3:AM Interview]
* [http://suicidegirls.com/interviews/I+Love+Lord+Buddha+author+Hillary+Raphael/ Suicide Girls Interview]
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