Sara Gruen was born on 1969 in Vancouver and is an author with dual Canadian and US citizenship.
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11 Facts About Sara Gruen
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Sara Gruen recounts being left to survive on her own at age 15 as a street urchin.
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Sara Gruen grew up in London, Ontario, and attended Carleton University in Ottawa to get a degree in English literature.
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Sara Gruen is an animal lover; both her first novel, Riding Lessons, and her second novel, Flying Changes, involve horses.
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Sara Gruen received a Doctorate of Humane Letters, Causa Honoris, from Wittenberg University.
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In June 2015, Sara Gruen received a letter from Charles Murdoch, an inmate at a California prison.
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Sara Gruen's letter praised Water for Elephants and described the circumstances of his case.
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Sara Gruen told Gruen that former chief justice Alex Kozinski of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit “described my conviction as 'a truly spectacular miscarriage of justice.
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Sara Gruen began to correspond with Murdoch and took up the cause of attempting to overturn his conviction, believing Murdoch's prosecution to have depended on a coerced confession by witness Dino Dinardo.
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Sara Gruen hired attorneys and investigators at her own expense, including former Los Angeles District Attorney's Office prosecutor Robin Sax, eventually spending more than half a million dollars on her fight to free Murdoch.
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