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Joyce Thompson

Thompson, Joyce

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Joyce Thompson was born in Seattle in 1948. She graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University in 1970; her novel Hothouse chronicles the campus upheavals of the late 1960s. She lived in New York, Boston, Portland, Oakland and an island in Puget Sound. Joyce Thompson is the mother of two and the stepmother of three children. She has worked for publishers and a media production group, taught writing at a number of community colleges and universities throughout the West, and is a founding faculty member of the Oregon Writers’ Workshop. Her books include Bones, Hothouse, The Blue Chair and Merry-Go-Round and the short story collections 35¢ Thrills and East is West of Here. (Source: author info in "Conscience Place", "Bones" and "Sailing My Shoe to Timbuktu")

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Conscience Place
Representative edition published 2019
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Sailing my shoe to Timbuktu
Representative edition published 2003
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Merry-go-round
Representative edition published 1994
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Bones
Representative edition published 1992
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Bones
Representative edition published 1991
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Harry and the Hendersons
Representative edition published 1987
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East Is West of Here
Representative edition published 1987
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Bigfoot and the Hendersons
Representative edition published 1987
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Hothouse
Representative edition published 1981
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Blue Chair
Representative edition published 1981
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35-cent thrills
Representative edition published 1978
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How to greet strangers
Representative edition published 2013
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