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Twins
Twins And What They Tell Us About Who We Are
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In this fascinating book, New Yorker writer Lawrence Wright recounts the decades of research on twins and their similarites to shed light on how our genes influence our personalities.
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In this fascinating book, New Yorker writer Lawrence Wright recounts the decades of research on twins and their similarites to shed light on how our genes influence our personalities.

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About Lawrence

Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine.

He is a graduate of Tulane University, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the American University in Cairo, where he taught English and received master of...

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Published Reviews

Dec.13.2007

Mr. Wright’s book, based on more than five hundred interviews, … gives the reader a searing view of the tragic events of September 11th, 2001, a view that is at once wrenchingly intimate and boldly sweeping...

Dec.13.2007

[Lawrence Wright’s] book is neither straight history nor confessional memoir. Instead, he has told his own story, describing what it was like to grow up as an above-average and thus typical baby boomer, in...