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A Note About the Author

A veteran international journalist who has worked in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Paris, along with assignments in New York, Chicago, and Washington, Steven Levingston is the nonfiction book editor of
The Washington Post.
He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife and two children.

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