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‘Female authors are notoriously dumpy and plain. Often obese.’

September 20, 2012 By Kathy Shaidle

 To find a female writer without a hump back and a mouth of tusk-like teeth is quite a task. Behind our backs they refer to us as The Beasts of the creative arts.” (…)

Franzen’s argument for Wharton’s enduring appeal hinges on “her one potentially redeeming disadvantage: she wasn’t pretty.”

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