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Stacey Abrams brings her storytelling power to politics and the page
For author and former politician Stacey Abrams, storytelling isn t just important in book-writing it s also at the heart of everything she does, whether she s running for office or rousing people to vote.
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Stacey Abrams is a voting rights activist, award-winning author and politician. And in each of her fields, she s also a storyteller. (Kevin Lowery)
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Stacey Abrams Contains Multitudes
Her obsessions with public policy and pop culture came together in the new Supreme Court thriller “While Justice Sleeps,” the first time she has used her own name on one of her novels.
“One thing I am grateful to my parents for is that there was never a moment where they said, ‘Don’t do this,’” Stacey Abrams said. “What they wanted for us was to explore and try.”Credit.Diwang Valdez for The New York Times
May 5, 2021Updated 1:42 p.m. ET
Stacey Abrams published her first book “Rules of Engagement,” a romance novel about a brilliant undercover agent and her smoking-hot colleague while a student at Yale Law School. Eager to keep her worlds separate, she used the nom de plume Selena Montgomery, a homage to the “Bewitched” actress Elizabeth Montgomery.