Quinn Bradlee

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(aged ) is an American

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and advocate for improving the lives of

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individuals.

Biography

Bradlee is the son of the late author and ''

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Ben Bradlee Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (, 1921 – , 2014) was an American journalist who served as managing editor, then as executive editor of ''The Washington Post'', from 1965 to 1991. He became a public figure when the ''Post'' joined ''The New Y ...

, and author and journalist

Sally Quinn Sally Sterling Quinn (born July 1, 1941) is an American author and journalist, who writes about religion for a blog at ''The Washington Post''. Early life Sally Quinn was born in Savannah, Georgia, to Lt. General William Wilson "Buffalo Bill" ...

. He was diagnosed in 1996 with

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. He attended The Lab School of Washington, and graduated from the college-preparatory Gow School in 2002. He attended special programs at Landmark College and American University, and studied at the

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. He is the producer of several documentary films including the 2007 film ''Life with VCFS'' about the syndrome and the VCFS International Center at

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, and is the associate producer of the 2010

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documentary film ''I Can't Do This But I CAN Do That: A Film for Families About Learning Differences''. He is the author of the 2009 memoir ''A Different Life: Growing Up Learning Disabled and Other Adventures'', documenting his efforts to overcome VCFS, and, with his father, he co-authored the 2012 book ''A Life's Work: Fathers and Sons''. He is the

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of Friends of Quinn, a website which he created in 2008 as part of the HealthCentral Network for learning disabled individuals. It offers "resources and support for young adults with learning differences," and uses the dyslexic-friendly Dyslexie font to mitigate some of the issues that dyslexics experience when reading. As part of a series of website-video interviews with notable individuals, he interviewed filmmaker Steven Spielberg. In the interview, Spielberg described his own lifelong dyslexia and 2007 diagnosis of the developmental reading disorder. Bradlee is also the youth engagement associate for the National Center for Learning Disabilities. He married yoga instructor Pary Anbaz-Williamson in 2010. The couple divorced in 2014.

Filmography

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bradlee, Quinn 1982 births American filmmakers American non-fiction writers American University alumni American disability rights activists Living people New York Film Academy alumni Writers from Washington, D.C. Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland People from Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)