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Melissa Albert
Former Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
Melissa Albert was a research editor at Encyclopædia Britannica. Her first novel, The Hazel Wood (2018), was a New York Times bestseller.
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Al Franken is an American Democratic politician, comedian, and political commentator who represented Minnesota in the U.S. Senate from 2009 to 2018. When Franken was four years old, his family moved from New York City to Minnesota, where his father ran a factory. The younger Franken earned a…
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