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Susan Orlean

Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including The Library BookRin Tin TinSaturday Night, and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award–winning film Adaptation. She lives with her family and her animals in Los Angeles and will release her memoir, Joyride, this fall.

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The Virginia tradition connects generations of Saltwater Cowboys, the descendants of Misty herself, and two islands where wildness reigns