Lois took time from her busy promotional schedule to answer questions from Rose City Reader. She lives in a bright green house in Portland, Oregon, with a charming, bipedal Newfoundlander. Lois gives talks about American history and literature at libraries, bookstores, universities, museums, teacher training programs, and conferences throughout the country. She is a regular contributor to Disunion, the New York Times coverage of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, and her poetry and essays have appeared in numerous books, literary journals, and on NPR. A confirmed book geek, Lois earned degrees in history and literature from Harvard, the University of Southern California, and UCLA, and taught at UCLA and at Reed College. The book was released this week, to glowing reviews in The Oregonian and others (see here, here, and here, for example).ĪUTHOR BIO: Award-winning author Lois Leveen dwells in the spaces where literature and history meet. Based on true events, this is the remarkable story of a former slave who spied on the Confederates during the Civil War. Portland author Lois Leveen is getting national buzz for her newly-released, debut novel, The Secrets of Mary Bowser.
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