{"id":37424,"date":"2021-03-25T16:25:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T23:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookfest.com\/?p=37424"},"modified":"2021-03-25T16:29:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T23:29:02","slug":"dr-karen-sloan-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookfest.com\/dr-karen-sloan-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Karen Sloan-Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"37424\" class=\"elementor elementor-37424\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5cd2af9a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5cd2af9a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3564c3d9\" data-id=\"3564c3d9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6b5381e9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6b5381e9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I was raised in North Philadelphia, a middle daughter in a family of six children. My father was a pastor, a Civil Rights activist, a writer, and poet, who passed down his love of writing to me; my mother was a homemaker. After high school, I traveled back to their original hometown in Nashville to attend Tennessee State University, where my father was an alumnus. I earned a BS in Chemistry, married, had a family, and for 15 years worked in biomedical research. In 2001, a family tragedy upended my life, and I searched for a new direction that led me back to school. I earned a Master of Education and a Doctorate in Education at Tennessee State University in 2009.<\/p><p>Totally inspired by the inauguration of Barack Obama as president and my love of history, I published my first book: <em>A Reflection: What a Difference a Day Makes, What About 100 Years?<\/em> in 2012. It\u2019s decade by decade representation of black history covering 1909-2009. I have been a prolific writer since, writing two nonfiction books, and ten novels. 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