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Merrill Markoe
Merrill Markoe graduated from UC Berkeley with a masters degree in art, then went on to use her degree in the most pragmatic way possible by becoming a writer of comedy for assorted venues, including television, movies and magazines,(when there still were magazines.) Along the way she won five... show more

Merrill Markoe graduated from UC Berkeley with a masters degree in art, then went on to use her degree in the most pragmatic way possible by becoming a writer of comedy for assorted venues, including television, movies and magazines,(when there still were magazines.) Along the way she won five Emmys for Late Night with David Letterman and a Writer's Guild Award for HBO's Not Necessarily the News.These days she is STILL writing books and making short films. To learn more than you probably need to know about her, visit Merrillmarkoe.com. And when I say "her", I mean "me." As far as I can tell, I'm the only one writing this.
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Birth date: August 13, 1948
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Humor, Romance
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The Book Frog
The Book Frog rated it 11 years ago
You talk to your dog. You know you do, so you might as well admit it. And it's not all goo goo ga ga baby talk either. No, you engage in conversations composed of complete sentences and abstract thought. Gil Winowiscz, the forty seven year old hero of Nose Down, Eyes Up talks to his four dogs...
qaphsiel
qaphsiel rated it 15 years ago
I read this right after Speaker For The Dead by Orson Scott Card, so I was definitely up for something lighter, and for a short while my mood and the humor of the book carried me along quite nicely.Then the characters started to get on my nerves. The protagonist is a whiny doormat. If she ever fully...
BookHounds
BookHounds rated it 16 years ago
This is a must read for any dog lover. I have always thought that there is a grand conspiracy theory that dogs actually are planning a world take over and this just confirms it. I only hope that Markoe has another book like this for me to read soon.
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 27 years ago
I just enjoy Markoe's writing so much, it doesn't matter that I'm largely indifferent to dogs.
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