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Author of The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience. She was a staff writer for the Washington Post for twenty years. In 2008, she shared a Pulitzer Prize for the Post’s coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings.