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John Green: ‘I devoured the Sweet Valley High books in the 1980s’
Source: The Guardian · Published
<p>The American author on being inspired by Kurt Vonnegut, coming late to Jane Austen, and the brilliance of Robert Penn Warren</p><p><strong>My earliest reading memory</strong> <br> I remember…
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