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Sarahbeth Purcell

American writer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ7422939 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sarahbeth Purcell (born 1976 or 1977) is an American author of fiction. Her first book, Love Is The Drug, was published in 2003 in hardback and in trade paperback in 2004. Her second book, This is Not a Love Song, was published in trade paperback in 2005. Purcell is also a visual artist of both photography and paintings.

Editorial summary

“Sarahbeth Purcell” enters the record as american writer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sarahbeth, Purcell and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976, 1977, 2003, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1977-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sarahbeth, Purcell and American.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Sarahbeth Purcell” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sarahbeth, Purcell and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7422939. VIAF identifies the subject as 78483207. The Library of Congress control number is no2004011875. 1 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1976, 1977, 2003 and 2004.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Sarahbeth Purcell” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.