Candice Shy Hooper
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Candice Shy Hooper

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Born on Guam to a U. S. Navy Hospital Corpsman and his intrepid Hoosier wife, Candice Shy Hooper attended more than half a dozen schools before her high school graduation. The one constant in her nomadic life were libraries from Saipan to Norfolk, Virginia, that her parents made the family’s first stop in every household move. With an undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Illinois and a law degree from Georgetown University, it was only after a career on Capitol Hill as aide to the late Congressman Charlie Wilson (“Charlie Wilson’s War”) and as a lobbyist with her husband that she “discovered” her true intellectual passion. Returning to school in 2006, she earned an MA in history, with a concentration in military history, from George Washington University. Hooper’s work has appeared in the New York Times, The Journal of Military History, The Michigan War Studies Review, and District Lines (an anthology published by the renowned independent bookstore Politics & Prose). She has spoken at the Society for Military History annual conference, Film & History annual conference, and the Southern Historical Association, and she has lectured at the U. S. Naval Academy and George Washington University. Candice is a Member of the Board of Directors of President Lincoln’s Cottage at the National Soldiers’ Home in Washington, DC. She is also a member of the Ulysses S. and Julia D. Grant Historical Home Advisory Board in Detroit, Michigan. Hooper is currently president of the Johann Fust Library Foundation in Boca Grande, Florida, where she spends half the year with her husband Lindsay and her canine personal trainer, Bisbee. The rest is divided between Virginia and Wyoming.
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