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Quillen deBruney

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Born

Lincoln, NE, The United States

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https://debruney.wixsite.com/my-site

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Historical Fiction, Fiction

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Jane Austen, Margaret Atwood, Jo Baker, Tracy Chevalier

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Born in Nebraska, raised in Iowa, and educated in Missouri, Quillen deBruney’s life was a veritable tour of the Midwest until she moved to Baltimore, Maryland in 2005. She grew up with dreams of being a professional musician but, realizing she had neither the talent to make a living as a performer nor the grit to endure the life of a starving artist, she set her sights on a different kind of performance: politics.

Eventually, her appetite for partisan battles matured into a desire to make government more effective. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Truman State University and a Master of Arts in public policy from The Johns Hopkins University, Quillen moved to Washington, DC, where she spent 15 years working for th ...more

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Black Out Loud: The Revolutionary History of Black Comedy from Vaudeville to '90s Sitcoms

by Geoff Bennett

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The Ships We Sail: Modern Fables for the Unfinished Soul

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The Historian

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