Anne Gardiner Perkins
Anne Gardiner Perkins grew up in Baltimore and attended Yale University, where she earned her BA in history and was the first woman editor-in-chief of the Yale Daily News. She is also a Rhodes Scholar and completed a BA in modern history at Balliol College, Oxford University. She has spent her life in education, from urban high school teacher to elected school committee member. She received her PhD in higher education at UMass Boston and has presented papers on higher education at leading conferences.
When she is not writing or doing research, Anne enjoys hiking, tending her vegetable garden, and beating her son at board games. She lives with her husband in Boston and in Harvard, Massachusetts. YALE NEEDS WOMEN is her first book.
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Bella Forrest is a lover of fantasy, romance, action, and mystery infused stories with twists you don’t see coming. She has sold over fifteen million books since her first novel was published in 2012.
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