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  • Who Do You Think You Are?

    MEET THE AUTHOR

    May 05, 2020 2 minutes

    Your son Jonathan previously wrote about your family’s history in his bestselling novel Everything Is Illuminated. How did you go from fiction to fact?

    It’s so interesting that what happened in this case was rather than taking something real and creating art out of it, creating fiction, we had

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