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Alison L. McLennan

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Alison L. McLennan is a native of Quincy, Massachusetts. She earned a Bachelor of University Studies in Expressive Therapy from the University of Utah and an MFA from the Solstice program of Pine Manor College where she was awarded the first Dennis Lehane Fellowship for Fiction. Her second novel, Ophelia's War:The Secret Story of a Mormon Turned Madam, was published by Five Star Gale-Cengage Learning in 2016 and was an Editor's Choice of the Historical Novel Society. Her first novel, Falling for Johnny, won Honorable Mentions in the 2012 Utah Original Writing Competition and the 2013 Inkubate Literary Blockbuster Challenge. She is currently working on the sequel to Ophelia's War. She is interested in Depth Psychology and believes that creat ...more

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Falling for Johnny

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