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Pamela Dean [1953-0] American

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Pamela Collins Dean Dyer-Bennet, better known as Pamela Dean, is an American fantasy author whose most notable book is Tam Lin, based on the Child Ballad of the same name, in which the Scottish fairy story is set on a midwestern college campus loosely based on her alma mater, Carleton College in Minnesota.

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I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.		101
I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculine, either. I did not want to cook and have babies, and I did not want to be an engineer or a baseball player or a soldier or a politician or any of the myriad careers open mostly or solely to men. I wanted to be a poet.		102
I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.		103
Truthfully, the person with whom I identified most in Heinlein's early works was Rhysling in 'The Green Hills of Earth.'		104
I first read Heinlein when I was very young.		105
Just as I could tell you about my first Andre Norton novel or my first L'Engle or my first Asimov, I could write a paragraph about how each of these writers influenced me, my writing, and my thoughts, and do to this day.		106

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