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This article appears to be a target of frequent vandalism. The current paragraph in the Life section ends with "To her, writing became a very private place, where no one could come in. She began to form strong emotional bonds to the United States as a young child while still living in China."
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The work would seem to be in the category of autobiographical fiction. In the Foreword to "Homesick" Jean Fritz indicates the story events are sometimes laced together with "fictional bits" and by "adding a piece here and there when memory didn't give me all I needed." She concludes by saying,
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When did she get "writing jobs" while failing to publish any stories? and then work as a librarian (children's librarian is suggested)? This is said to be 1960s/70s but she published her first children's books in 1954 and 1955 and a successful historical novel in 1958, per the next section.
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It appears to me that these two sentences had their genesis in a series of edits which were (what appears to me to be) vandalism throughout the May 2010 time frame. I would hate to strike them based upon my conclusion if someone else has a better insight. Thanks.
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to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
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Article clearly has some references although still needs a lot of work. Author meets Notability standards.--
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A goodreads user clearly distinguishes it from the other one (quote google books)
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Today I removed this prose note from the References section (quote):
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Evidently it includes photographs by Michael Fritz. --
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