Annalisa Quinn is a contributing writer, reporter, and literary critic for NPR. She created NPR's Book News column and covers literature and culture for NPR.
Quinn studied English and Classics at Georgetown University and holds an M.Phil in Classical Greek from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Cambridge Trust scholar.
These Precious Days: Essays, by Ann Patchett Harper hide caption
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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear, by Kate Moore Sourcebooks hide caption
Everybody: A Book about Freedom, Olivia Laing W. W. Norton & Company hide caption
Summerwater, by Sarah Moss Farrar, Straus and Giroux hide caption
All About the Story: News, Power, Politics, and the Washington Post, by Leonard Downie, Jr. Public Affairs hide caption
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President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump depart the White House on May 27. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption
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Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back, by Mark O'Connell Doubleday hide caption
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