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Marie Arana

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Born: September 14 1949

She was born in Peru, moved to the United States at the age of 9, did her B.A. in Russian at Northwestern University, her M.A. in linguistics at Hong Kong University, a certificate of scholarship at Yale University in China, and began her career in book publishing, where she was vice president and senior editor at Harcourt Brace and Simon & Schuster. For more than a decade she was the editor in chief of "Book World", the book review section of The Washington Post. Currently, she is a Writer at Large for The Washington Post. She is married to Jonathan Yardley, the Post's chief book critic, and has two children, Lalo Walsh and Adam Ward.

Marie Arana

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Born: September 14 1949

She was born in Peru, moved to the United States at the age of 9, did her B.A. in Russian at Northwestern University, her M.A. in linguistics at Hong Kong University, a certificate of scholarship at Yale University in China, and began her career in book publishing, where she was vice president and senior editor at Harcourt Brace and Simon & Schuster. For more than a decade she was the editor in chief of "Book World", the book review section of The Washington Post. Currently, she is a Writer at Large for The Washington Post. She is married to Jonathan Yardley, the Post's chief book critic, and has two children, Lalo Walsh and Adam Ward.

Books from Marie Arana

Bolívar: American Liberator

4.1/5 ( ratings)

American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Cellophane

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Lima Nights

3.1/5 ( ratings)

Off the Page: Writers Talk About Beginnings, Endings, and Everything In Between

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Through The Eyes Of The Condor: An Aerial Vision of Latin America

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The Virginia Quarterly Review: Fall 2012

玻利瓦尔：美洲解放者

De papiermaker van de Amazone

Layered Urbanisms: Gregg Pasquarelli / Galia Solomonoff / Mario Gooden

The Writing Life: Writers on How They Think and Work : A Collection from the Washington Post Book World