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Jeff Schwager

Jeff Schwager is a journalist, editor, and co-author (with Nancy Pearl) of The Writers Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives. As a playwright, his adaptations of Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son and Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay were produced by Book-It Repertory Theatre in Seattle.

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