James Finn Garner (born 1961) is an

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writer and

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based in Chicago. He is the author of ''

Politically Correct Bedtime Stories ''My Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times'' is a 1994 book written by American writer James Finn Garner, in which Garner satirizes the trend toward political correctness and censorship of children's literature, with an ...

'',"Book World; Fables For the PC '90s"
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'', 27 April 1994. ''Politically Correct Holiday Stories'', ''Apocalypse Wow'', "Once Upon A More Enlightened Time" and May 2007 "Recut Madness" (www.jamesfinngarner.com) Garner graduated from

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and the

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, where he won a Hopwood Award for one of his short plays. ''Politically Correct Bedtime Stories'', Garner's first book, has sold more than 2.5 million copies in the U.S. and has been translated into 20 languages. It spent 65 weeks on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list.

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American comedy writers Writers from Chicago University of Michigan alumni Hopwood Award winners Place of birth missing (living people) 1961 births Living people People from Dearborn, Michigan {{US-writer-stub