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An award-winning writer and writing instructor, Margaret Finnegan is the author of "Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women."

Her essays have appeared in publications such as Salon, The Los Angeles Times, and FamilyFun. Margaret writes mostly about women, family, and writing. Read more at her blog, FinneganBeginAgain, which was a Google Blog of Note in 2009.

Margaret provided the audio commentary for the four suffrage films featured in the DVD collection "Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film, 1900–1934," which was chosen as one of the top ten DVD collections of 2007 by TIME. The San Francisco Chronicle called her commentaries “illuminating,” and, according to the Austin Chronicle, Finnegan “comes on like a well-off academic’s Sarah Vowell, her distinctive voice and dry asides helping to illuminate ‘how films can participate in larger conversations between popular culture and political life.’”

As a result of her appealing commentaries on “Treasures III,” she was invited to perform the voiceover for the “Huntington Senior Care Network” video.

Margaret is committed to helping individuals of all ages find their voices as writers and thinkers. She teaches composition at California State University, Los Angeles and leads writing camps and workshops for children as young as seven. She has worked with parents and schools to improve writing instruction and was the director of Adventure Writers, a writers’ workshop for girls.

She graduated, Phi Beta Kappa, from Scripps College in Claremont, California with a B.A. in Political Science, and then earned both an M.A. and a Ph.D. in History from UCLA.

Margaret welcomes contact from editors who need timely, thought-provoking essays, commentaries and articles that make people stop…and think.

Call 626/437-6988 or email her.