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Claire Gebben

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Claire Gebben was born and raised on the southeast side of Cleveland in Moreland Hills, Ohio. After earning a BA in Psychology from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, she settled in the Pacific Northwest, where she worked in various jobs as a resource center manager, newsletter editor, communications director and ghostwriter, all the while raising a family and pursuing her first love of writing. In 2011, she earned an MFA in Creative Writing through the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts. Her historical novel "The Last of the Blacksmiths," about a German immigrant blacksmith who pursues the American dream, came out in 2014. Since then, she’s given numerous presentations on German genealogy, historical research, and writing about fa ...more

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	The Last of the Blacksmiths 3.76 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2014 — 4 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
	How We Survive Here: Families Across Time by Claire Gebben (Goodreads Author), Angela Weber (Translation) 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 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
	The Speculative Edge, Issue 5, December 2012 by Margaret Karmazin, Greg Austin, Claire Gebben (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012 — 2 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
	Soundings Review - Where Writers and Readers Connect - Fall/Winter 2012 - Essay - Fiction - Poetry - Children/Young Adult by Claudia Charlton, Jesse Cheng, Susan J. Erickson 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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Recently, my brother was going through boxes kept after Dad passed away and unearthed two tools.

“They say Harm on them,” he said to me over the phone, “so I thought you might want them.”

Yes! Of course I want them. I wrote a novel based on the true story of my great-great grandfather Michael Harm and his Harm & Schuster Carriage Works, and by now I’ve collected a small museum of items: photos, a go

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