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Sara Gruen
Sara Gruen, the author of AT THE WATER’S EDGE, APE HOUSE and WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, moved to the United States from Canada in 1999 for a job as a technical writer. She was laid off in 2001 and decided to pursue a lifelong dream of writing fiction. She has published five novels, each involving animals as full-fledged characters; the first two, RIDING LESSONS and FLYING CHANGES, about horses, were published as mass market originals. Gruen lives in North Carolina with her husband, three sons and a menagerie of rescued animals. She donates a portion of her earnings from all of her books to various animal charities.
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Sara Gruen Biography
Sara Gruen is the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of At the Water's Edge, Water for Elephants, Ape House, Riding Lessons, and Flying Changes. Her works have been translated into forty-three languages, and have sold more than ten million copies worldwide. Water for Elephants was adapted into a major motion picture starring Reese Witherspoon, Rob Pattinson, and Christoph Waltz in 2011.
She lives in Western North Carolina with her husband and three sons, along with their dogs, cats, horses, birds, and the world's fussiest goat.
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Sara Gruen
Canadian-American author
Sara Gruen (born 1969 in Vancouver[1]) is a Canadian-American author. She is a 2007 recipient of the Alex Award for young adult literature.
Early life and education
Gruen was born in Vancouver, British Columbia.[2] She grew up in London, Ontario.[2] She has claimed that at age 15, she was left to survive as street urchin.[3] She attended Carleton University in Ottawa[2][4] and graduated with a degree in English literature. She continued to live in Ottawa for 10 years after graduation.[2]
Career
Gruen moved to the United States from Ottawa in 1999 for a technical writing job.[5] When she was laid off two years later, she decided to try writing fiction. Gruen is an animal lover; both her first novel, Riding Lessons, and her second novel, Flying Changes, involve horses. Gruen's third book, the 1930s circus drama Water for Elephants (2006), was initially turned down by her publisher at the time, Avon Books; as a result, Gruen found anothe
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