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Ursu­la Werner

Ursu­la Wern­er is a writer and attor­ney cur­rent­ly liv­ing in Wash­ing­ton, DC, with her fam­i­ly. Born in Ger­many and raised in South Flori­da, she has prac­ticed law while con­tin­u­ing her cre­ative writ­ing, pub­lish­ing two books of poet­ry, In the Silence of the Woodruff (2006) and Rapun­zel Revis­it­ed (2010). Her first nov­el, The Good at Heart, was pub­lished by Touch­stone Books ear­li­er this year.

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Essay

Read­ing Anne Frank’s Diary, as a Writer

Ursu­la Werner
March 9, 2017
Essay

What My Nazi Great-Grand­fa­ther Taught Me About the Oblig­a­tion to Act

Ursu­la Werner
March 6, 2017
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The Good at Heart
Ursu­la Werner

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