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2015 selection · Poetry
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, biography & memoir, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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