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What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
Patricia Hampl

Born: March 12, 1946 (age 79)
Bio: Patricia Hampl is an American memoirist, writer, lecturer, and educator. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and is one of the founding members of the Loft Literary Center.
Known for:
- The Florist's Daughter (2007)
- A romantic education (1981)
- Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime (2006)
- I Could Tell You Stories (1999)
- Virgin Time (1992)