Talk:Heidi Julavits

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[edit] About Possible Deletion

I started this article because I was looking for the information and it was not in wikipedia, so I decided to start the page (I assume this is the usual reason for starting new entries). I only know the basics about this person, (which are easily backed up from very simple web searching) but she is a repeatedly published author and fairly prominent writer and editor, enough that I figured I would at least make a stub.

There is not much in wikipedia about non-mainstream, younger writers, and it seems to me that there should be (especially in light of the many niche entries about other very small groups).

And based on other author entries, it seems there does not need to be proof of published books (i.e. links to Amazon or such) but I will put that here:

http://www.amazon.com/s/103-4047630-5011859?ie=UTF8&index=books&rank=-relevance%2C%2Bavailability%2C-daterank&field-author-exact=Heidi%20%20Julavits

Plus a list of mainstream reviews of her last book:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0399150498/ref=dp_proddesc_0/103-4047630-5011859?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books

Which includes:

San Francisco Chronicle, "Best Books of 2003", December 14, 2003

Los Angeles Times

Library Journal, May 15, 2003

The Village Voice

Vogue, July, 2003

Entertainment Weekly, June 27/ July4, 2003

The Daily News, June 22, 2003

Oregonian, July 6, 2003

I believe this falls under the "Published authors, editors and photographers who received multiple independent reviews of or awards for their work" section of Wikipedia:Notability (people).

(I also believe the right of the entry to exist is on par with at least this entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendela_Vida) --Gatfish 22:15, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. I am persuaded. I have removed the request to delete but please try and include some this material into the article to make it more complete and more notable. --Spartaz 22:34, 17 August 2006 (UTC)