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Steve Yarbrough, American novelist and short story writer
Steve Yarbrough is an American author and academic, who teaches at Emerson College. The Realm of Last Chances, his first novel set in New England, was published by Knopf 2013. It won the 2014 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Fiction. He has also won the 2010 Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence.
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Steve Yarbrough (writer) was born in 1956. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.
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| Measure | 1956 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Gas | $0.30 | $3.45/gal |
| Average home | $11,700 | $435,000 |
| Average income | $6,500 | $67,500 |
| Minimum wage | $1.00 | $7.25/hr (federal) |
| Movie ticket | $0.50 | $11.95 |
| Postage stamp | $0.03 | $0.73 |
| Population | 168.1M | 341 million |
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