The Second Winter (44 page)
Authors: Craig Larsen
The book also owes its present form to Kim Witherspoon, Lena Yarbrough, and Judith Gurewich.
Finally, I need to mention my debt to my friend Johanna, who showed me what it means to be beautiful.
CRAIG LARSEN
was born in 1963 and is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Columbia Law School. His first novel
, Mania,
was published in 2009. A single father, Larsen has lived in New York and Europe. He currently resides in northern California
.
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