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Marya Hornbacher
Memoir & Personal Growth
American author and freelance journalist best known for Wasted, a memoir of anorexia and bulimia that sold over a million copies and was translated widely.
Biography
Marya Justine Hornbacher (born April 4, 1974) is an American author and freelance journalist. She has written about personal and health-related experiences and is identified in sources primarily by her nonfiction writing.
Her book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, written when she was twenty-three, is an autobiographical account of her struggle with eating disorders. Wasted is the work that originally brought attention to Hornbacher; it has been translated into sixteen languages and sold over a million copies in the United States.
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Books by Marya Hornbacher
Madness
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia is an autobiographical account of Hornbacher’s struggle with eating disorders, written when she was twenty-three; it brought her public attention and has been widely translated and sold over a million U.S. copies.