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17. Samin Nosrat Always Wanted to Be Famous

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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How Long Did It Take You to Write Your First Book?

"I've always wanted to be a writer basically since I was in 11th grade," Samin Nosrat says. "The act of writing was about three and a half years, maybe." The author's first book came out in 2017; she had the idea for it around 1999 or 2000.

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