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Elizabeth Berg


Born
in Saint Paul, Minnesota, The United States
December 02, 1948

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Literature & Fiction


Elizabeth Berg is an American novelist.
She was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and lived in Boston prior to her residence in Chicago. She studied English and Humanities at the University of Minnesota, but later ended up with a nursing degree. Her writing career started when she won an essay contest in Parents magazine. Since her debut novel in 1993, her novels have sold in large numbers and have received several awards and nominations, although some critics have tagged them as sentimental. She won the New England Book Awards in 1997.
The novels Durable Goods, Joy School, and True to Form form a trilogy about the 12-year-old Katie Nash, in part based on the author's own experience as a daughter in a military family. Her essay "The Pretend Knit ...more

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Average rating: 3.8 · 384,098 ratings · 39,710 reviews · 69 distinct works • Similar authors
Open House
3.70 avg rating — 61,070 ratings — published 2000 — 64 editions
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The Story of Arthur Truluv ...
4.18 avg rating — 52,645 ratings — published 2017 — 23 editions
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Night of Miracles (Mason, #2)
4.02 avg rating — 21,436 ratings — published 2018 — 14 editions
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What We Keep
3.90 avg rating — 18,282 ratings — published 1998 — 19 editions
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The Confession Club (Mason,...
3.75 avg rating — 17,864 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions
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The Year of Pleasures
3.73 avg rating — 15,826 ratings — published 2005 — 23 editions
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The Art of Mending
3.66 avg rating — 13,434 ratings — published 2004 — 34 editions
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Talk Before Sleep
3.96 avg rating — 12,374 ratings — published 1993 — 48 editions
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We Are All Welcome Here
3.91 avg rating — 12,509 ratings — published 2006 — 28 editions
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Home Safe
3.53 avg rating — 13,208 ratings — published 2009 — 21 editions
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Series by Elizabeth Berg

Earth's the Right Place for... The Story of Arthur Truluv Night of Miracles The Confession Club
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“There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures
tags: death, love, separation
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“There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Art of Mending
tags: happiness, joy, religion
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“I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Talk Before Sleep
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