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Kate Lehrer is a Washington, DC writer. She has written four novels, numerous short stories, essays, and book reviews, and is a panelist on the Diane Rehm Book Club on NPR.

Lehrer's first novel, Best Intentions, was published in 1987.When They Took Away the Man in the Moon came out in 1993.Out of Eden, which won the Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Novel, was published in 1996.Confessions of a Bigamist: A Novel, described by the Washington Post as whimsical and droll, was published in 2004.

Publishers Weekly describes Lehrer's writing style as intelligent and mannered. The Washington Post characterizes her work as fitting into “the burgeoning category of chicklit.”

Lehrer was born Kate Tom Staples in Waco, Texas, an only child, to Thomas Malcolm Staples, a county extension agent, and Lucy Joplin, a social worker. She has been married since 1960 to novelist and PBS anchor Jim Lehrer. They have three children and six grandchildren.

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