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SpiottaDana Spiotta grew up mostly in California. She graduated from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington in 1993.
Scribner published her first novel, Lightning Field, in 2001. The Los Angeles Times called it "The hippest, funniest, most urbane and heartfelt account of life west of the 101 and north of the 10 to come along in years." It was a New York Times Notable Book of the year, and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the West.
Her second novel, Eat the Document, was published in 2006 by Scribner. It was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award. The New York Times called Eat the Document "stunning" and described it as "a book that possesses the staccato ferocity of a Joan Didion essay and the razzle-dazzle language and the historical resonance of a Don DeLillo novel."
Spiotta lives with her husband and daughter in Cherry Valley, New York. They run a small restaurant on the first floor of their home.
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