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Hank Stuever was born in 1968 in Oklahoma City and grew up there, and left, and got into journalism. He worked for newspapers in Albuquerque and Austin in the 1990s and then at The Washington Post for 26 years, first as a features reporter, then as TV critic, then as an editor and eventually as head of the features department. He left the Post in 2025.

OFF RAMP, a collection of his feature stories and essays, was published in 2004. His 2009 book, TINSEL, follows three suburban families in Frisco, Texas, through three Christmases. He lives in Washington, DC.

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	Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas Present 3.71 avg rating — 787 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	All You Can Lose is Your Heart by KayLynn Deveney (photographer), Hank Stuever (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Jean Valjean Vandruff (Contributor) 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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It's Only Drowning: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Search for Common Ground

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