and a Master's Degree and honorary doctorate from Goucher College. She was a schoolteacher (in Syracuse, NY, Omaha, Nebraska, and Virginia Beach, VA and an assistant editor of McGraw-Hill's World News (foreign news service), a reporter for the Ledger-Star in Norfolk, VA and, in 1978, an editorial writer for the "Virginian-Pilot" in Norfolk, Virginia. Her first published work was the well-received, eleven-volume, "A History of US", from Oxford University Press. Wikipedia
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