
Beatrix Potter with “Kep” in 1915. Do you know who was GREAT? Beatrix Potter. If you read her youthful diaries, you’ll fall in love with her.
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President Lincoln and his Doxie
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“The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.” — Mark Twain. This photo could only be better if Mark Twain were wearing his dog on his shoulder, like Edith Wharton liked to do with her pups.
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Dolly Parton at home in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, 1960s
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Beatrix Potter With The Real Peter Rabbit
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Edith Wharton with Dogs on her Shoulders, Newport, RI, 1889. CAN I JUST REPEAT THAT CAPTION: “Edith Wharton, with Dogs on her Shoulders.” All author photos should look like this. By the way, I worship Edith Wharton. And her dogs.
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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler. Perfect short stories. Perfect.
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Angela’s Ashes. I remember sitting in a motel room in Erie, PA, on assignment for Spin Magazine, shivering under a thin blanket in a snowstorm, reading this, and weeping.
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Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett
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