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Steve Luxenberg

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Steve Luxenberg is an author and an associate editor of The Washington Post. He has worked for more than 30 years as a reporter and editor. Two projects that he edited at The Post have won Pulitzer Prizes for his reporters. He grew up in Detroit, the primary setting for his nonfiction book, "Annie's Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family Secret" (Hyperion, hardcover, May 2009; paperback, May 2010).

The book has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered and the Diane Rehm Show. Awards: Michigan Notable Book for 2010; Washington Post's "Best Books of 2009." One of only three nonfiction books chosen for the Independent Booksellers Association's Winter 2009/2010 Recommendations for Book Clubs. Selected by the Buffalo News Book Club as its January 2...more


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“Secrets, I've discovered, have a way of working free of their keepers.”
Steve Luxenberg, Annie's Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family Secret

“Without really trying, I have become a collector of other families' secrets. Whenever I tell someone about my detective work, the first question is invariably something like this: 'Can you tell me the secret?' Sure, I say. The next question often is: 'Want to hear my family's secret?”
Steve Luxenberg, Annie's Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family Secret

“Without really trying, I have become a collector of other families' secrets. Whenever I tell someone about my detective work, the first question is invariably something like this: 'Can you tell me the secret?' Sure, I say. The next question often is: 'Want to hear my family's secret?”
Steve Luxenberg, Annie's Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family Secret

“Secrets, I've discovered, have a way of working free of their keepers.”
Steve Luxenberg, Annie's Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family Secret

“Stories rarely begin at the beginning, but every storyteller has to begin somewhere, and Anna chooses to start this story with shame.”
Steve Luxenberg, Annie's Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family Secret

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