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Benjamin Percy

American Novelist

Born: Mar 28, 1979

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Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach

I travel often, so my routine is always getting scrambled. But on a standard sort of day, I get up at 6, pack lunches, hustle the kids off to school, then brew a pot of coffee and head downstairs to the dungeon, as I call it: my cobwebby office in the basement. Benjamin Percy

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My voice is rather quirky. It's abysmally low. People often think I'm putting it on at first. Think drunk Darth Vader. Or Barry White singing country. It suits my dark material. When I do readings, I really play it up and go subterranean. I can make the phone book sound terrifying. Benjamin Percy

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Yes, I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools. My parents went through a back-to-the-land phase. Most of our vegetables and fruits came from our own garden. Benjamin Percy

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I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground. Benjamin Percy

Outside Western Up Just Grew Oregon Acres Served Playground

It's still incredibly hard. Not just honing my craft but kicking down doors, getting my work published. Early on, I could have wallpapered my house with all the rejection letters sent my way. I put thousands of hours and pages into four novels that never saw the light of day. Benjamin Percy

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Novels will remain my meat and potatoes, what sustain me imaginatively. Benjamin Percy

Me Will Potatoes Remain Sustain Meat Novels

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