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* Billie Letts – Author of No. 1 New York Times bestseller and Oprah Winfrey Book Club selection Where the Heart Is ( Warner, 1996 ), made into a 2000 film of the same title, starring Ashley Judd and Natalie Portman.

The novel has sold more than 3. 2 million hardcover and mass-market paperback copies combined.

Although a Tulsa native, she was an English professor at Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant.

Other novels: The Honk and Holler Opening Soon ( Warner, 1998 ), Shoot the Moon ( 2004 ) and Made in the USA ( 2008 ).