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Tony Hiss
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Tony Hiss

Tony Hiss Biography

Tony Hiss is the author of fifteen books, including the award-winning The Experience of Place. He was a staff writer at the New Yorker for more than thirty years, was a visiting scholar at New York University for twenty-five years, and has lectured around the world. He lives in New York with his wife, young-adult writer Lois Metzger.



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