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  • Deborah Kahn
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  • Deborah Kahn grew up in suburban Chicago. She received four degrees from the University of Illinois because she didn't have the gumption to go anywhere else, and spent most of her career at the university, eventually earning a PhD, working in departmental administration, publishing, and libraries. Her specialties are 15th-16th century European history, polar exploration, and food history. She may be one of the few people in America to never live outside her home state. Having originally published nonfiction, she has a chapter, “Sylvie Green” in A Reason to Be Here, a recently published collaborative novel. Her first book, At First Sight, will be published later this year. Deborah loves music, theater, travel, and cats, and various less elevated activities like eating doughnuts and sampling gins and single malts. After spending most of her life in a medium-sized university town she moved back to Chicago in 2017 so she could go to more Blackhawks games and spend quality time at Eataly. Unfortunately her lifetime goal, to be English, is likely to remain unfulfilled.
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