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Jennifer Crusie

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Born

Wapakoneta, Ohio, The United States

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Romance, Literature & Fiction, Humor

Influences

Georgette Heyer, Dorothy Parker

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March 2008

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Jennifer Crusie is the New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher's Weekly bestselling author of twenty-three novels, one book of literary criticism, miscellaneous articles, essays, novellas, and short stories, and the editor of three essay anthologies.

She was born in Wapakoneta, a small town in Ohio, and then went on to live in a succession of other small towns in Ohio and New Jersey until her last move to a small town in Pennsylvania. This may have had an impact on her work.

She has a BS in Art Education, an MA in literature, an MFA in fiction, and was ABD on her PhD when she started reading romances as part of her research into the differences between the ways men and women tell stories. Writing a romance sounded like more fun than wri ...more

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Jennifer Crusie’s books

Average rating: 3.82 · 372,901 ratings · 22,583 reviews · 78 distinct works • Similar authors

	Bet Me 3.94 avg rating — 93,842 ratings — published 2004 — 80 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Welcome to Temptation (Dempseys, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 33,695 ratings — published 2000 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Agnes and the Hitman (The Organization, #0) by Jennifer Crusie (Goodreads Author), Bob Mayer (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 21,201 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anyone But You 3.82 avg rating — 21,051 ratings — published 1996 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Faking It (Dempseys, #2) 3.93 avg rating — 19,418 ratings — published 2002 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crazy For You 3.79 avg rating — 17,882 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Manhunting 3.79 avg rating — 16,136 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Getting Rid of Bradley 3.73 avg rating — 15,087 ratings — published 1994 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fast Women 3.81 avg rating — 14,233 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maybe This Time 3.75 avg rating — 13,950 ratings — published 2010 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning."
-Gwen Goodnight”
― Jennifer Crusie, Faking It

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“Nobody in my life has ever known me the way you do. Nobody in my life has ever made me feel as good as you do. You know me, you know everything about me, and when you leave me, you're going to be leaving the real me, the me nobody else has ever seen, that's who you're going to be rejecting.”
― Jennifer Crusie, Bet Me

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“I'm Min's fairy godmother, Charm Boy,' Liza said, frowning down at him. 'And if you don't give her a happily ever after, I'm going to come back and beat you to death with a snow globe.'

What happened to "bibbity bobbity boo"?' Cal asked Min.

That was Disney, honey,' Min said. 'It wasn't a documentary.”
― Jennifer Crusie, Bet Me

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Polls

February BoTM "Red or Pink Cover" First Poll

Top 5 books move onto the second round.

You

by Caroline Kepnes

12 votes, 15.4%

The Language of Flowers

by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

8 votes, 10.3%

The Magician's Lie

by Greer Macallister

6 votes, 7.7%

Mudbound

by Hillary Jordan

6 votes, 7.7%

The Little Paris Bookshop

by Nina George

6 votes, 7.7%

No Country For Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy

5 votes, 6.4%

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

by Therese Anne Fowler

5 votes, 6.4%

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

5 votes, 6.4%

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

by Jonathan Safran Foer

4 votes, 5.1%

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

by Mark Haddon

4 votes, 5.1%

by David Nicholls

4 votes, 5.1%

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot

4 votes, 5.1%

The Painted Girls

by Cathy Marie Buchanan

3 votes, 3.8%

Covet

by Tracey Garvis-Graves

3 votes, 3.8%

Manhunting

by Jennifer Crusie

2 votes, 2.6%

The Noodle Maker

by Ma Jian

1 vote, 1.3%

The Art Forger

by Barbara A. Shapiro

0 votes, 0.0%

78 total votes

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