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Life

Shearer was born on July 28, 1950, in

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. Her father was gossip columnist

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''. May 27, 2001. Retrieved on August 5, 2014. and her mother was Marva Peterson. She had an older brother,

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, and a twin brother, Cody.Scott, A. O.
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''. May 28, 2001. She spent her childhood in Los Angeles. She attended Stanford University for undergraduate studies in history and the English language. In 1971, she graduated with a

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and married

, who was the roommate of her brother Derek Shearer. Shearer had two sons, Adrian and Devin, and at the time of her death she had one granddaughter. She died from cancer at her

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residence on May 19, 2009.

Career

She wrote stories for ''

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'' and the British publication ''

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'' while in Eastern Europe. Talbott was reporting for ''

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'' in the same region. Brooke Shearer began assisting Sylvia Porter after she and her husband moved to Washington, D.C. in 1974. She served as a spokesperson for the

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in the 1980s. Brooke Shearer had worked as a private investigator for a period. She used the alias Connecticut Walker when writing stories for '' Parade''. During the 1992 United States presidential election, Shearer was an aide to

. When

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became

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in 1993 Shearer was put in charge of the

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. Shearer was an employee in the U.S. Department of the Interior during the second term of the Clinton administration. She became the first director of the

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program at

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after she and her husband moved to

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, in 2001. Later she served as the head of the International Center for Research on Women.

References

External links

* Smith, Ben.
Brooke Shearer, R.I.P.
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