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Karen Grigsby Bates

Karen Grigsby Bates is a Los Angeles-based correspondent for NPR News, the author of the Alex Powell mystery series, and co-author, wih Karen Elyse Hudson, of the best-selling etiquette book Basic Black: Home Training For Modern Times . She and her husband, photographer Bruce W. Talamon, are the parents of a college-aged son.