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Jennifer Donnelly

Jennifer Donnelly loves spending time in the company of old dead people. In fact, she often prefers it to talking with living ones.

When she was a kid, she never wanted to go to Disneyland. Mickey and Minnie held no allure. “Please, please, please can we go to Colonial Williamsburg this summer?” she would beg her parents.

She caught the history bug in third grade when her mother took her to see the movie Mary, Queen of Scots starring Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson. She loved the drama and the intrigue, to say nothing of the dresses and the... Read More