"... I was haunted by the fact that I didn't have an education and that I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to write plays but I didn't seem to realize there was something wrong with not liking to read plays."
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Helene Hanff
(April 15, 1916 – April 9, 1997) was an American writer, known for her book '. The book consists of letters spanning 20 years of correspondence between Helen Hanff in Manhattan and a book shop in London.
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