About Deborah
Deborah Kalb is a writer, editor, podcaster, and book blogger. 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.
She is the author of the mystery novel Everything She Most Admired (Apprentice House, 2026) and the literary novel Off to Join the Circus (Apprentice House, 2023). She is also the author of three novels for young readers, the co-author of a history of Vietnam and the American presidency, and the author, editor, or contributor to a number of CQ Press / SAGE reference works on U.S. elections.
Deborah is the host of the book blog Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb, which she started in 2012. She’s interviewed hundreds of authors across a variety of genres. She’s also the co-host, with Mary Grace McGeehan, of the podcast Rereading Our Childhood, where they discuss and reread books they read as children.
