http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/opf/archive.php4 In 2000, Hamilton was named a Notable Wisconsin Author by the Wisconsin Library Association. http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/readers/WLAC/Notable/Notable2000.htm All of her books are set, at least in part, in Wisconsin. ``A Map of the World'' is set in Racine County, Wis. Of her writing, novelist Laura Moriarty says: ``I like Jane Hamilton for her compassionate portrayals of characters most people would ridicule, and the way her books show the beauty of rural life without romanticizing it.''
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