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About Phil Klay
American writer
Phil Klay is an American writer. He won the National Book Award for fiction in 2014 for his first book-length publication, the short story collection Redeployment. That same year, the National Book Foundation named him a 5 under 35 honoree. His 2020 novel, Missionaries, was included among Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year and was also named one of The Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of the Year.
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Explore War
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Explore Loneliness
- “I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.”Gustave Flaubert
- “All this has been happening around them all the days of their lives though they couldn’t see it, then one day…”Geoffrey Wood
- “My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a jou…”Gloria Steinem