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I Know Just What You Mean: The Power
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Patricia O'Brien  Patricia O'Brien's award-winning career has spanned the worlds of fiction and non-fiction books, journalism, politics and education. Her latest book is The Glory Cloak, a novel about the experiences of Louisa May Alcott and Clara Barton as nurses in the Civil War.Her latest book is Harriet and Isabella, a novel about Harriet Beecher Stowe, which was published this January. She is the co-author, along with Ellen Goodman, of the New York Times bestseller entitled, I Know Just What You Mean – The Power of Friendship In Women's Lives. Her other novels include The Glory Cloak, which is set in the time of the Civil War, and three political works of fiction: The Candidate's Wife, The Ladies' Lunch, and Good Intentions. Her earlier non-fiction books include The Woman Alone and Staying Together: Marriages That Work. From 1976 to 1987 she was a political correspondent and columnist for Knight-Ridder newspapers in Washington, covering the Reagan White House, Congress and the 1984 national political campaigns of Gary Hart and Geraldine Ferraro. From journalism she switched to politics, becoming press secretary for Governor Michael Dukakis when he ran for president in 1987. In 1988, she was awarded a Freedom Forum Fellowship at Columbia University. O'Brien graduated from the University of Oregon in 1966, and then began her journalistic career at the South Bend Tribune in South Bend, Indiana. In 1970, she began working for the Chicago Sun-Times, first as a reporter, then as a columnist and editorial writer. She became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1973. |
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