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Donna Conrad is a bestselling author, journalist, activist, and teacher. The Last Magdalene, book one of the 5-book Magdalene Chronicles, has won 5 national awards and is noted as a “must-read” by Publishers Weekly and The St. Louis Review.
As a historical fiction author, Donna writes about marginalized women, bringing their lives and stories to a modern audience.
Her first published book, House of the Moon: Surviving the Sixties, is a memoir that explores life in the tumultuous decade that changed the world.

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Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n Roll, a saying most folks identify with the Sixties, though the phrase comes from a punk rock song of the same name by Ian Dury, released in 1977. And though Dury coined the phrase, all three were around well before the Sixties, and two of the three from the beginning […]

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