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Marya Hornbacher

About the Author

Marya Hornbacher is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of five books, including Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Madness: A Bipolar Life. She has received the Annie Dillard Award for Nonfiction, the Logan Fellowship for Social Justice Journalism, and the White Award for Magazine Journalism, and other distinctions. Her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Vogue, Smithsonian Magazine, and Longreads. Her Substack “Going Solo at the End of the World” is a multi-media report from the American road.

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