Just Published: Deborah’s first novel for adults, Off to Join the Circus. It’s about an overly enmeshed family in the D.C. area, and what happens when a legendary relative returns after 64 years. For sale on Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and at bookstores everywhere.

For information on the children's book The President and Me: John Adams and the Magic Bobblehead, click here.


For information on the children's book The President and Me: John Adams and the Magic Bobblehead, click here.

To read author interviews, updated frequently, on the blog Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb, click here.


To read author interviews, updated frequently, on the blog Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb, click here.

For information on Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama, click here.


For information on Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama, click here.

ABOUT DEBORAH

Deborah Kalb is a freelance writer and editor. She spent about two decades working as a journalist in Washington, D.C., for news organizations including Gannett News Service, Congressional Quarterly, U.S. News & World Report, and The Hill, mostly covering Congress and politics. Her book blog, Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb, which she started in 2012, features hundreds of interviews she has conducted with a wide variety of authors.

She is the author of the forthcoming novel Off to Join the Circus (Apprentice House, 2023), as well as three novels for kids, Thomas Jefferson and the Return of the Magic Hat (Schiffer, 2020), John Adams and the Magic Bobblehead (Schiffer, 2018), and George Washington and the Magic Hat (Schiffer, 2016) — and she’s the co-author, with her father, Marvin Kalb, of Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama (Brookings, 2011). She is the author/updater of Elections A to Z, 5th edition (CQ Press/SAGE, 2022), the editor of the two-volume reference book, Guide to U.S. Elections, 7th edition (CQ Press/SAGE, 2016), the co-author of The Presidents, First Ladies, and Vice Presidents (CQ Press, 2009), and the co-editor of State of the Union: Presidential Rhetoric from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush (CQ Press, 2007), and has contributed updates to a variety of other CQ Press books on politics and government.

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