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I’m proud to be a third-generation librarian, carrying on a family tradition of sharing books and connecting people to information. I was born in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and raised in Kansas City. I graduated from Vassar College with a BA in history and women’s studies and from the University of Iowa with master’s degrees in history and library science. For ten years I worked in Washington, D.C., as a librarian and archivist at ProQuest, the Library of Congress, and the office of U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD). I am currently an archivist, book coach, and ghostwriter in Tucson.

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A Well-Read Woman: The Life, Loves, and Legacy of Ruth Rappaport

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“when you do marry, don’t marry a man to change him, marry a man whom you think you can like as well as love, and one who shares your opinions on such basic matters as politics, religion (or the lack of it) and the place of women in society.16”
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“Research into Ruth Rappaport’s life led me to a seemingly endless array of sources in many archives and in multiple languages. I started with her oral history and tried to verify the stories she told. As it turned out, some of them were impossible to track down in other sources, and I’ve tried my best to reconcile the sources I could track down with Ruth’s own words.”
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