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Jo Ann Beard

About the Author

Jo Ann Beard is the author of the essay collections The Boys of My Youth and Festival Days. Her work has appeared in The New YorkerTin HouseThe Best American Essays, and other magazines and anthologies. She has received a Whiting Foundation Award and nonfiction fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. 

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