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A.J. Verdelle

Novelist and essayist

A.J. Verdelle -- novelist and essayist, is author of the prize-winning novel, The Good Negress. Her book, Meanwhile Back at the Ranch, an epic novel about slaves who escaped to freedom and made cowboys of themselves, is due out in 2014, from Spiegel & Grau/Random House.

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