For Best-Selling Novelist R. F. Kuang, It All Began on a North Texas Debate Team
Emily McCullar 17h agoTM
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The author of ‘Babel,’ ‘Yellowface,’ and the ‘Poppy War’ trilogy says the state’s fierce culture of competitive forensics profoundly shaped her writing.
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