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Best-Selling Author Freida McFadden Is Actually Sara Cohen

JL;DR SUMMARY Freida McFadden, a best-selling author known for her thriller novels, recently revealed her true identity as Sara Cohen in an interview with USA Today. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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IdentityJewish AuthorsCultural IdentityFamily BackgroundThriller NovelsFreida McfaddenSara CohenPen NamesMedicine And WritingUsa Today Interview

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New York, United States
"Cohen was raised in Midtown, Manhattan, with a psychiatrist father and a podiatrist mother, the daughter of two doctors who both instilled in her a love for books (her mother was a fan of thrillers and loves her daughters writing, even if she doesnt always get it)."
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
"She met her husband, an engineer, in computer science class, and the two live in Boston."

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