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One of the best things about being a writer is you get to spend all day discovering fascinating things about the world and call it research. My most recent book is BITTER GREENS, a retelling of the Rapunzel fairy tale interwoven with the dramatic life story of the woman who first wrote the tale, the 17th century French writer Charlotte-Rose de la Force. While researching the motif of hair...

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This article is part of a series. Read the previous article here > Last night at the Sydney Writers' Festival opening night ceremony, the Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie spoke about the importance of putting forth multiple stories into the world. She told us about growing up in Nigeria and reading children's books from Britain and the United States. In these books, she...