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Since she was young, Cline has been intrigued by “group dynamics ... the way allegiances are always shifting."

She was raised on her family& #39;s winery in Northern California: “I was privileged in a million ways" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-09-01/emma-cline-was-a-literary-darling-then-a-target-her-new-stories-come-for-the-king">https://www.latimes.com/entertain...

The 2016 publication of “The Girls” brought Cline a lot of media attention. It is a sidewise look at the Manson family in the summer of 1969, shearing off names and scrambling other details https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-girls-emma-cline-20160601-snap-story.html">https://www.latimes.com/books/jac...

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