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Christine Lehner
Christine Lehner (born May 15,1952 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American novelist and short story writer. She earned a bachelor's degree (1974) and a master's in Fine Arts (1977) at Brown University.

She published the novel Expecting in 1981. Following the publication of Expecting, she stopped writing for twenty years while raising her two kids. In 2000, she returned to the literary circuit with short story publications in several journals. Most recently, she published What to Wear to see the Pope. In this collection of short stories, she focuses on themes of family, idiosyncrasy and hagiography. She will coming out with a new book in late 2006. Her literary influences include Virginia Woolf, Anthony Trollope and Richard Russo.