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Debra Bruce

Born: Albany, New York
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Bruce is with the English Department at Northwestern Illinois University. She resides in Chicago.

Biography: N/A

Awards:
  • Carl Sandburg Award for ''Sudden Hunger''

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: D-Bruce1@neiu.edu
Debra Bruce on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=debra+bruce

Selected Titles

Pure daughter :
ISBN: 0938626213 OCLC: 9488463

University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville : 1983.

Sudden hunger :
ISBN: 0938626817 OCLC: 13860731

University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville : 1987.

The very best of contemporary Christian words and music :
ISBN: 0881884898 OCLC: 15306157

Hal Leonard Pub. Corp., Winona, MN : [1986?]

What wind will do :
ISBN: 1881163180 OCLC: 35049608

Miami University Press, Oxford, Ohio : ©1997.

 

 

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