Maureen Mackey

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Maureen Mackey is Features Editor, Books, at Reader’s Digest magazine, where she’s worked for the past 8 years on some of the finest nonfiction being published today. She has nearly 25 years of experience scouting, selecting and excerpting books and has worked closely with some of the top authors in the business, including Rick Bragg, Tom Brokaw, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Mary Roach, Walter Isaacson, Mary Higgins Clark, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Stephen Covey.

Maureen’s writing has appeared in Reader’s Digest, The New York Times and Publishers Weekly, and she’s a graduate of the Stanford Professional Publishing Course. In her Book Fare blog, she brings an inside look at books.

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