Ann Hedreen

About The Author

Ann Hedreen is a writer, filmmaker and teacher. She is a fellow in the Journalists in Aging Fellows Program of the Gerontological Society of America, and speaks and writes often about creative aging in 3rd Act Magazine and elsewhere, including her award-winning blog, The Restless Nest. Her memoir, Her Beautiful Brain, won a 2016 Next Generation Indie book award. She lives in Seattle.

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Books by Ann Hedreen

Her Beautiful Brain

A Memoir

By Ann Hedreen

Her Beautiful Brain is Ann Hedreen’s story of what it was like to become a mom just as her beautiful, brainy mother began to lose her mind to an unforgiving disease. Arlene was a copper miner’s daughter who was divorced twice, widowed once, raised six kids singlehandedly, survived the turbulent ‘...

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