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          2024 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony
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Charles Bock

Charles Bock

Charles Bock is the author of the novel Beautiful Children, which was a New York Times bestseller and notable book of the year and won the Sue Kaufmann Prize for best first novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His fiction and non-fiction has appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Slate, as well as in numerous anthologies. His lives with his wife, Leslie Jamison, and his daughter in New York City.

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