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Author Bio
Birth—1982
Where—Plano, Texas, USA
Education—B.A., Washington University
Currently—lives in Brooklyn, New York City, New York


Stefan Merrill Block grew up in Plano, Texas. His first novel, The Story of Forgetting, won Best First Fiction at the Rome International Festival of Literature, the 2008 Merck Serono Literature Prize and the 2009 Fiction Award from The Writers’ League of Texas. The Story of Forgetting was also a finalist for the debut fiction awards from IndieBound, Salon du Livre and The Center for Fiction. The Storm at the Door (2011) is his second novel, and Oliver Loving (2018) his third. Block lives in Brooklyn. (From the publisher.)

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