Anne Labouisse Dean is a retired academic and clinical psychoanalyst, who has spent the last quarter century researching Irish history and mastering the art of fiction writing. At eighty-two years of age, she is arguably among the oldest women ever to publish her debut novel.
Forthcoming titles include My Paradise Lost, a memoir tracing the evolution of my life-long relationship to a plantation that has been in my mother’s family for two centuries, and My Queen and I, sequel to Far Side of Revenge, a historical novel rescuing Brian Boru’s famed, fourth wife, Gormlaith, from her traditional status as villain and recasting her as the heroine responsible for Brian’s ultimate success.
Anne Dean grew up in New Orleans, the city she still calls home. After ten years away in the east, earning her BA in Political Science at Wellesley College, and PhD in psychology from Catholic U in Washington, DC, she returned to New Orleans to raise a family and teach developmental psychology at the University of New Orleans. She trained to be come a clinical psychoanalyst at the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute, and practiced both in New Orleans and Eugene, Oregon where she and her husband now live with no pets.