Author Talk: Where the Pulse Lives by John Loughery
A Connecticut native, John Loughery spent most of his adult life in New York City and returned to New England in 2023 following his retirement after 45 years of teaching fifth graders through college sophomores. A finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of the artist John Sloan, he is the author of seven …

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