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Carol Fertig was born in the Chicago area and lived there until going away to college. She lived briefly in Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Nebraska before moving to Colorado where she has resided since 1970. She has been active in the education community for more than 40 years and involved in gifted education for more than 25 years. At various times she has been employed as a classroom teacher, gifted education teacher, consultant, writer, and editor. She has two grown boys. In her spare time, she enjoys skiing, mountain biking, and golfing. She also loves to practice piano, read, travel, attend cultural events, and watch foreign movies. For more than six years, she wrote the highly successful "Prufrock's Gifted Child Information Blog." Carol's b ...more

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Raising a Gifted Child

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Crooked Branches on the Family Tree

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