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He is a former staff writer at new england monthly and has written for the new yorker and the new york times magazine. John shea true story of a courtroom showdown between two of the nations largest corporations accused of causing the deaths of children. In one of his first classes, harr told his students that hes very selective about who reads drafts of his work. Harr spent nine years researching and writing a civil action, which was published in 1995, subsequently nominated for a national book award, and awarded the.
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