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Thelma Michelle Adams is an American author and film critic. She wrote the historical fiction novel The Last Woman Standing. Adams also served as the chair of the New York Film Critics Circle twice, and worked as a contributing editor at Yahoo!
 

Genres: Historical
 
Novels
   Playdate (2011)
   The Last Woman Standing (2016)
   Bittersweet Brooklyn (2018)
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