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Maryse Condé

Maryse Condé was a Guadeloupean author of historical fiction, best known for her novels *[Segu](/works/OL470774W)* & *[Moi, Tituba, Sorcière... Noire de Salem](/works/OL470774W)*. She was born in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, youngest of eight children. In 1953, her parents sent her to study at Lycée Fénelon and Sorbonne in Paris, where she majored in English. In 1959, she married Mamadou Condé, a G...

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