Deborah Hufford
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Deborah Hufford

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I grew up an Iowa farm girl and was a rodeo queen! My childhood horse, Sundance, and I explored river valleys shrouded in forests and Indian mounds, pioneer ruins, old stagecoach trails, buffalo wallows, and an abandoned coal mine. My love of history was born! As a University of Iowa grad student, I taught Iowa Writers’ Workshop students. I began my magazine career at Better Homes & Gardens, then amassed numerous writing credits, including New York Times, NYT Magazine, and Connoisseur. I also taught at Northwestern and Marquette universities. But I always dreamed of writing a novel. I launched a historical blog, Notes from the Frontier, that has more than 100,000 readers. Then finally, I became a debut novelist at age 70, after a life-and-death struggle with kidney failure and a heart attack. My husband saved my life and my novel by donating his kidney❣️ I’ve achieved my life dream! My debut novel, BLOOD TO RUBIES, is now an Amazon #1 national bestseller and Book of the Year. The great William Kent Krueger called BLOOD TO RUBIES “simply phenomenal...sensual, poetic, tragic, utterly riveting. Mark my words, BLOOD TO RUBIES is destined to become a classic.” My second novel, THE FIRE BORN, is now on sale, about the fieriest night in America's history: the Chicago fire on October 8, 1871. But that wasn't the worst fire that night. That was north of Chicago in the Wisconsin Northwoods. The Peshtigo fire killed 2,500 souls and remains the worst fire in American history, yet the world has never heard of it! New York Times bestselling authors are raving about this novel too: ”A stunning saga, magnificently told.” Read more about my books and historical blog at: www.DeborahHufford dot com and www.Notes from the Frontier dot com. If you are in a bookclub, are a librarian or belong to a civic group, I'd love to do an author event for you. Reach out to me at my author site listed above.
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