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673 days ago - Katherine Marsh spent lots of time in New York City while growing up and moved there in 1998, working at Good Housekeeping and then Rolling Stone after spending a year teaching English at her boarding school alma mater in Connecticut.

688 days ago - “A Skating Life” By Dorothy Hamill With Deborah Amelon Hyperion, 2007

688 days ago - Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution, worked for many years as a columnist for Time, was founding director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, and served from 1994 to 2001 as deputy secretary of state. His new book is “The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation” (Simon & Schuster, 2008). He lives in Washington.

973 days ago - Washington native David Ignatius is a graduate of St. Albans and Harvard University, and recipient of a diploma in economics from King’s College at Cambridge University. Before joining The Washington Post, he was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and an editor at Washington Monthly. He was also executive editor of the Paris-based International Herald Tribune from 2000 to 2003. Ignatius currently writes a twice-weekly column for the Post and, with Fareed Zakaria, hosts PostGlobal, an online discussion of world issues. He has written a number of novels, beginning with “Agents of Innocence” in 1987 and including the newly published “Body of Lies.” Married and the father of three daughters, Ignatius lives in the District.

990 days ago - Meredith Jacobs is a native of Philadelphia and a graduate of Haverford, and she holds a master’s in marketing from Johns Hopkins. She is the co-founder and CEO of Modern Mom Inc., a parenting columnist, editor of www.modernjewishmom.com and author of “The Modern Jewish Mom’s Guide to Shabbat” (Harper, 2007). She lives in Rockville with her husband and two children.

997 days ago - Gigi Anders was born in Havana and grew up in Washington. She is a graduate of Sidwell Friends School and the University of Maryland, where she studied English and art history. She worked for the Washington Post, first in the circulation department and finally as a writer for the “Style” section, and as a senior features writer for the Raleigh News & Observer, which she left in 1999 to freelance full-time. Her first book, “Be Pretty, Get Married and Always Drink TaB” (formerly Jubana!), was recently released in paperback by Rayo; her new book, “Men May Come and Men May Go, But I’ve Still Got My Little Pink Raincoat: Life and Love In and Out of My Wardrobe,” has just been published by Rayo.

1004 days ago - Bonny Wolf, a native of Minnesota, is a National Public Radio commentator and the editor of “Kitchen Window,” NPR’s Web-based weekly food column. She has lived on Capitol Hill with her family for more than 20 years, has worked as a journalist and a speechwriter for two secretaries of agriculture during the Clinton administration, and published D.C. food newsletter “The Food Pages” in the 1990s. Her first book, “Talking with My Mouth Full: Crab Cakes, Bundt Cakes, and Other Kitchen Stories,” was published by St. Martin’s Press in the fall.

1011 days ago - Robert Ward is a Baltimore native who went to Towson University before earning an MFA at the University of Arkansas. After teaching for a time, he decided on a writing career. His first novel, “Shedding Skin,” won an NEA award for first novel of exceptional merit. He has since written several other novels, including “Red Baker,” which won the PEN West prize for best novel of 1985, and which is now available again from St. Martin’s Minotaur. His new novel, “Four Kinds of Rain,” is also published by St. Martin’s. Ward co-wrote the screenplay for his own novel, “Cattle Annie and Little Britches,” and has written for and produced several television series, among them “Hill Street Blues” and “Miami Vice.” He lives with his wife and son in Los Angeles, but visits Baltimore often.

1011 days ago - Frank Warren, a small-business owner in Germantown, is the founder and curator of the PostSecret Project. He has a degree from the University of California at Berkeley and started the project — which has turned into a Web site, several art exhibitions and three books (most recently “The Secret Lives of Men and Women”) — simply: He handed blank postcards to strangers in Metro stations and invited them to send the postcards back, decorated and sharing a long-held secret.

1011 days ago - I love winter. I think of it as a gift from nature; allowing and even encouraging us to slow down and sit down and follow solitary pursuits, like reading.

1018 days ago - Michael del Vecchio grew up in Killingworth, Conn., and came to Washington in 1996 to attend the George Washington University, where he studied French language and literature. He works for Americans for the Arts, an arts advocacy organization. His project, called Animating Democracy, explores how arts and civic engagement operate in the world. He is co-founder of MenKnit.net, an online resource for men who knit, and has recently published his first book, “Knitting With Balls: A Hands-on Guide to Knitting for the Modern Man” (DK, 2006).