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Nancy Koester
Nancy Koester is the author of Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life and the winner of the Minnesota Book Award for General Nonfiction in 2015. American history and women’s biography are her special areas of interest. She has served as an ELCA pastor and holds both an MDiv and Ph.D. degree. She and her husband Craig live in Saint Paul and have two adult children. Koester has given many presentations for book clubs, churches, libraries, retreats, and classes. She enjoys helping others with their writing and research.
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Bibliography
We Will Be Free: The Life and Faith of Sojourner Truth, Library of Religious Biography (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2023)
Introduction to the History of Christianity in the United States (Fortress Press, 2015, revised and expanded)
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life, Library of Religious Biography (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2014)
Journeying Through Lent with Luke (Augsburg Fortress, 2000)
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