4 Quotes & Sayings By Edna Buchanan

Edna Buchanan was born in Chicago, Illinois. She received her BA in English Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her MA in Journalism from Columbia University. At eighteen, she became a newsroom stenographer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and remained there for ten years Read more

She was also a proofreader for the New York Daily News. Her first novel, The Night Comes On (1987), was the winner of the 1987 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. It was later made into a film starring Linda Fiorentino and Sam Shepard.

Edna's second novel, The Ice Storm, won a Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She also wrote a collection of short stories, The Pickle Tree (1992), and a play, The Dark Pageant (1988).

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Gary Robinson died hungry. He wanted fried chicken, the three-piece box for $2.19. Drunk, loud, and obnoxious, he pushed ahead of seven customers on line at a fast-food chicken outlet. The counter girl told him that his behavior was impolite. She calmed him down with sweet talk, and he agreed to step to the end of the line. His turn came just before closing time, just after the fried chicken ran out. He punched the counter girl so hard her ears rang, and a security guard shot him–three times. . Edna Buchanan
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True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway. Edna Buchanan
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Friends are the family we choose for ourselves. Edna Buchanan