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Debra Lynn Dean (born 1957) [1] is an American writer, best known for her 2006 novel, The Madonnas of Leningrad .
Debra Dean | |
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Debra Lynn Dean (born 1957) [1] is an American writer, best known for her 2006 novel, The Madonnas of Leningrad .
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 her home area to study for a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Oregon. She now teaches creative writing at Florida International University, where she is an associate professor of English. [4] [5]
Stanley Eugene Fish is an American literary theorist, legal scholar, author and public intellectual. He is currently the Floersheimer Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City. Fish has previously served as the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and a professor of law at Florida International University and is dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Florida International University (FIU) is a public research university in Greater Miami, Florida. FIU has two major campuses in Miami-Dade County, with its main campus, Modesto Maidique (MMC), in University Park. Florida International University is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and is considered a "research university" by the Florida Legislature.
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Fiorella Terenzi is an Italian-born astrophysicist, author and recording artist who is best known for taking recordings of radio waves from far-away galaxies and turning them into music. She received her doctorate from the University of Milan but is currently based in the United States.
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The Madonnas of Leningrad, Debra Dean's first novel, tells the story of Marina, a docent at the State Hermitage Museum during the 900-day Siege of Leningrad. Marina's clear and detailed recollections of the Hermitage collection and the war are interspersed with her current dementia-impaired life in Seattle, Washington as she prepares to attend a granddaughter's wedding. The novel uses the vivid memories of the past to contrast with the struggles of an Alzheimer's victim in dealing with everyday life.
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