2: Writer REBECCA BROWN, author of a new book "Gifts of the Body" (HarperCollins Publishers). The book is a collection of connected short stories about caring for people with AIDS. Though the work is fiction, many of the characters are based on people she herself worked with. BROWN is the author of other books including "The Terrible Girls," "Annie Oakley's Girls," and "The Children's Crusade."
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