Nanci Kincaid is an American

United States

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 novelist who wrote a short story collection titled Pretending the Bed Is a Raft (1987), as well as novels Crossing Blood (1991), Balls (1999), Verbena (2002), and As Hot As It Was You Ought to Thank Me (2005). The film My Life Without Me

My Life Without Me

My Life Without Me is a 2003 Spanish/Canadian film directed by Isabel Coixet and starring Sarah Polley, Mark Ruffalo, Scott Speedman, and Leonor Watling. Based on the book Pretending the Bed Is a Raft by Nanci Kincaid, it tells a story of the dying process of a 23-year-old woman who has a husband...

was based on the title story in Pretending the Bed Is a Raft. Her most recent novel is "Eat, Drink, and be from Mississippi" (Little, Brown, 2009).

She was born in Tallahassee

Tallahassee, Florida

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, Florida

Florida

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 http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2003/Oct/05/il/il08a.html and now lives in Honolulu, Hawaii

Honolulu, Hawaii

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, and San Jose, California

San Jose, California

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 with her husband, San Jose State University

San José State University

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 football coach Dick Tomey

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. She was previously married to former University of Wyoming

University of Wyoming

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 and Arkansas State University

Arkansas State University

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 football coach Al Kincaid

Al Kincaid

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Kincaid claims Alabama as her home state and much of her fiction is set there, but she has also lived in Tallahassee, FL; Pinetta, TX; Auburn, AL; Richmond, VA; Blacksburg, VA; St. Petersburg, TX; Pearisburg, VA; Tuscaloosa, AL; Greenville, NC; Laramie, WY; Decatur, AL; Charlotte, NC; Boston, MA; Tucson, AZ; Honolulu, HI; Austin, TX; and San Jose, CA.