The Visionist: A Novel (36 page)
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Authors: Rachel Urquhart
When I began researching this novel, I knew three things about the Shakers: They forbade sex, they made beautiful furniture, and they shook. Thanks to the following sources, I now know a lot more.
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Rachel Urquhart is a former writer and editor at
Spy, Vogue,
and
Allure
magazines. Her nonfiction has appeared in
The New Yorker,
the
New York Times, Tin House, Elle, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, Food & Wine, Travel & Leisure,
and
Vanity Fair
. She received her MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.
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The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
Copyright © 2014 by Rachel Urquhart
Cover design by Keith Hayes
Cover photograph of Eldress Emoretta Belden (1862–1918), Hancock, MA. Courtesy of Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA.
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