Debra Dean
American writer
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Debra Lynn Dean (born 1957)[1] is an American writer, best known for her 2006 novel, The Madonnas of Leningrad.
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Life
Dean was born and brought up in Seattle and studied English and Drama at Whitman College, graduating in 1980.[2] She then trained as an actress in New York City,[3] where she married another actor, and worked mostly in theatre until returning to the Pacific Northwest to study for a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Oregon. She now teaches creative writing at the Florida International University, where she is an associate professor of English.[4][5]
Works
- The Madonnas of Leningrad (New York: William Morrow, 2006, ISBN 9780060825300, OCLC 780026459)[6][7]
- Confessions of a Falling Woman (New York: HarperCollins, 2008, ISBN 9780060825324, OCLC 924436770)
- The Mirrored World (New York: Harper Perennial, 2013, ISBN 9780061231469, OCLC 813286531)[8]
- Hidden Tapestry: Jan Yoors, His Two Wives, and the War That Made Them One (Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2018, ISBN 9780810136830, OCLC 1004512034)
