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His debut, hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet, spent two years on the new york times bestseller list, won the 2010 asianpacific american award for literature, and was a finalist for the washington state book award, the pacific northwest book award, and the langum prize for historical. A new york times bestselling author recently fumed on facebook after he had a poor experience with students from highland park high school in dallas jamie ford, the author of hotel on the. Jamie ford email ford is an awardwinning shortstory writer, an alumnus of the squaw valley community of writers, and a survivor of orson scott cards literary boot camp. The average jamie ford is around 44 years of age with around 70% falling in to the age group of 4150. Novelist jamie ford to speak at festival of the book gala. Keir graff was born and raised in missoula, montana.
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Jamie ford is the greatgrandson of nevada mining pioneer min chung, who emigrated from kaiping, china, to san francisco in 1865, where he adopted the western name ford, thus confusing countless generations. Two montana novels, two adaptations for television or film announced in a single week. Keir graff james grady and keir graff, both montana natives, masterfully curate this collection of unseemly western tales. Fredrik backman is a swedish author, blogger and columnist. Jamie ford, born james ford july 9, 1968, is an american author who gained notoriety with his debut novel, hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. Jamie ford has 11 books on goodreads with 529628 ratings. He is ethnically half chinese, and his first two books focused on the chineseamerican experience and the city of seattle. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Jamie fords debut novel, hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet, will be published by ballantine in january 2009, its a bittersweet tale about racism, commitment and enduring hopea noble romantic journey set in 1942, and later in 1986 when the belongings of 37 japanese families were discovered in the basement of a condemned hotel. His debut, hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet, spent two years on the new york times bestseller list, won the 2010 asianpacific american award for literature, and was a finalist for the washington state book award, the pacific northwest book award, and the langum.
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Garth stein, new york times bestselling author of the art of racing in the rain jamie fords first novel explores the ageold conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to japanese americans in the seattle area during world war ii, and the depths and longing of deepheart love. Jamie ford, author of hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet and his new book, love and other consolation prizes both set in a seattle of the past knows a. We found 250 records in 46 states for jamie ford in the us. Happy to be a part of last night, a superhero saved my life. Jamie ford hi donna, sorry for the belated reply, ive been traveling a bit.