Elizabeth Hand
Elizabeth Hand
Elizabeth Handis an American writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth29 March 1957
CountryUnited States of America
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I read '1984' at a precocious age, like 8, and when I did the math, I realized that Julia, Winston Smith's lover, was born the same year I was, 1957. I read that book over and over again with the 1960s as a backdrop: anti-war and anti-bomb protests and this general pervasive sense of doom.