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Jonathan Raban was the author of over a dozen books both fiction and non-fiction including Passage to Juneau Bad Land Hunting Mister Heartbreak Coasting Old Glory Arabia Soft City Waxwings and Surveillance. Over the span of six decades he won the National Book Critics Circle Award the Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Award the Thomas Cook Award the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. His work appeared in The New Yorker Granta Harpers The New York Review of Books Outside Atlantic Monthly New Republic The London Review of Books and other magazines. In 1990 Raban a British citizen moved from London to Seattle where he lived with his daughter until his death in 2023. . Language: English