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It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.

Elizabeth Kostova

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.

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About Elizabeth Kostova

Elizabeth Johnson Kostova (born December 26, 1964) is an American author best known for her debut novel The Historian.