Contributors

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Deborah Kalb

Deborah is a freelance writer and editor and a former journalist. She is the author of The Presidents and Me, a series of magical time travel adventures, and the co-author, with her father, Marvin Kalb, of Haunting Legacy, the story of how presidents from Ford to Obama dealt with the legacy of the Vietnam War. Her adult novel Off to Join the Circus was published in 2023. She has interviewed thousand of authors for her blog, Books Q&A by Deborah Kalb. She lives outside Washington, D.C., with her family.

https://www.deborahkalb.com/
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Mary Grace McGeehan

Mary Grace, a former U.S. diplomat, has lived in Mexico, South Africa, Cambodia, Haiti, Laos, Honduras, and Namibia. She received an MFA in creative writing from NYU in 20017. In 2018, she spent the year reading as if she were living in 1918, and she continues to recount her adventures in the world of a century ago on her blog, My Life 100 Years Ago. She divides her time between Cape Town, where she lives with her South African husband, and Washington, D.C.

https://mylife100yearsago.com/

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Jamie Stiehm

Jamie Stiehm is a columnist on national politics and history for Creators Syndicate. Before that, she spent 10 years as a metropolitan reporter at The Baltimore Sun. She is the author of The War Within, about witnessing the Jan. 6th mob attack on the Capitol.

Ms. Stiehm (or Jamie) grew up in Madison, Wis. and Santa Monica, Ca. Then she went east and attended Swarthmore College, near Philadelphia.

Her opinion columns have appeared widely across the United States. The New York Times published five of her history essays in its “Disunion” series on the Civil War. 
https://www.jamiestiehm.com/

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Judith Kalb

Judith E. Kalb earned a BA in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University and a joint PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Humanities at Stanford University. Dr. Kalb’s research focuses on the interactions between Russian culture and the Greco-Roman classical tradition. Her book Russia’s Rome: Imperial Visions, Messianic Dreams, 1890-1930, examines the image of ancient Rome in the writings of Russian modernists. Her new project focuses on Russia’s reception of Homer. An award-winning teacher, Dr. Kalb enjoys introducing students to the incredible world of Russian culture and the larger European literary tradition of which it forms a part.

https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/dllc/our_people/kalb_judith.php

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Sara Fitzgerald

Sara Fitzgerald is a former Washington Post editor who combines her love of writing and history to tell the compelling stories of little-known women. Her latest book, "The Silenced Muse: Emily Hale, T. S. Eliot, and the Role of a Lifetime," is the first full-length biography of Emily Hale, the American actress and college professor who was Eliot's first love and longtime confidante. Her other books include "Elly Peterson: 'Mother' of the Moderates" (2011), which was recognized as a 2012 Book of the Year by the Library of Michigan and by the Historical Society of Michigan; "Conquering Heroines: How Women Fought Sex Bias at Michigan and Paved the Way for Title IX" (2020); and The Poet's Girl (2020), a novel about Emily Hale. Fitzgerald majored in history and journalism at the University of Michigan and was the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of The Michigan Daily. She lives in Northern Virginia. 

https://sarafitzgerald.com/

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