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Lynn Cullen on WTMJ-TV Milwaukee's "The Morning Blend"

September 16, 2019 – Before Martha Stewart and Joanna Gaines, American women turned to Betty Crocker, a creation of Washburn-Crosby Company to help sell flour in the 1800s. In her new novel, “The Sisters of Summit Avenue,” award-winning author Lynn Cullen sets the story in Depression-era America, where June Whiteleather is a “Betty,” a recipe developer at the famous Betty Crocker test kitchen, and has to deal with her envious sister, Ruth. Lynn joins us to discuss this emotional journey of redemption, inner strength, and the ties that bind families together.

Lynn Cullen APPEARS IN "Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive" FROM american MASTERS

October 30, 2017 – This documentary by PBS’s American Masters draws on the rich palette of Poe’s evocative imagery and sharply drawn plots to tell the real story of the notorious author. “Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive” combines dramatized re-enactments by Tony Award-winning and Emmy-nominated actor Denis O’Hare as Poe in key moments of the writer’s life and interviews with contemporary authors about Poe and his legacy.

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books All ABOUT SISTERS

March 10, 2020 – by Diane Adams – “A heartful love letter to mothers, daughters and sisters everywhere is ‘The Sisters of Summit Avenue,’ written by Lynn Cullen. This powerful, emotional story of redemption, inner strength and the ties that bind families together is set in the great depression as a mother, with her own dark secrets, brings together her two long estranged daughters.”

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September 16, 2019 – by Suzanne Van Atten – “Atlanta author Lynn Cullen (Mrs. Poe) brings her keen eye for historical detail to this captivating, Depression-era tale about Dorothy, an emotionally troubled mother, and the sibling rivalry between her two daughters.”

Depression-era sibling rivalry: Two sisters, troubled mother search for happiness in ‘Sisters of Summit Avenue’

September 3, 2019 – by Amy Bonesteel for the AJC – “Atlanta author Lynn Cullen took on her most personal project yet with her newest novel, “The Sisters of Summit Avenue,” a ‘30s-era story of the rivalry and struggles between two Midwestern sisters and the secrets kept by their mother.”

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August 25, 2019 – by Karin Gillespie – “Rivalry among sisters is a well-used novel trope, but Atlanta author Lynn Cullen gives it a fresh perspective in her depression-era novel, ‘The Sisters of Summit Avenue.'”

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Author's Fort Wayne Roots Drive Latest Novel

September 17, 2019 – “Award-winning author Lynn Cullen is a Fort Wayne native who draws heavily on her childhood memories to spin the plot of her latest novel, The Sisters of Summit Avenue.”