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Valerie Gribben talks fairytales, medicine in New York Times

An essay by NewSouth Books author Valerie Gribben, “Practicing Medicine Can Be Grimm Work,” appears in today’s New York Times Op-Ed pages. Gribben, a medical student at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, is the author of The Fairytale Trilogy, a collection of three of her young adult fantasy novels, including one she published with NewSouth when she was only sixteen years old. In her essay, Gribben remarks on how her fascination with fairytales has informed her understanding of her patients as a medical student …

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