About
Rebecca Brenner Graham is a writer who has published in the Washington Post, Time, Slate, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. Her first book, Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany (Kensington, 2025), received support from a Cokie Roberts Fellowship at the National Archives Foundation and a Rubenstein Center Research Fellowship at the White House Historical Association.
She earned a PhD in history and MA in public history from American University and a BA in history and philosophy from Mount Holyoke College, where she loved school so much that now she is a history teacher at the Madeira School and an adjunct professorial lecturer at American University. Born and raised in Rhode Island, Rebecca lives and works in northern Virginia, and the rest of her life is in Washington, DC.
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