Debra Dean

Debra Lynn Dean (born 1957) is an American writer, best known for her 2006 novel, The Madonnas of Leningrad.

Life Dean was born and brought up in Seattle and studied English and Drama at Whitman College, graduating in 1980. She then trained as an actress in New York City, where she married another actor, and worked mostly in theatre until returning to the Pacific Northwest to study for a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Oregon. She now teaches creative writing at the Florida International University, where she is an associate professor of English.

Works The Madonnas of Leningrad (New York: William Morrow, 2006, , ) Confessions of a Falling Woman (New York: HarperCollins, 2008, , ) The Mirrored World (New York: Harper Perennial, 2013, , ) Hidden Tapestry: Jan Yoors, His Two Wives, and the War That Made Them One (Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2018, , )