Finding Magic: A Spiritual Memoir

In this emotional, inviting, and illuminating memoir, Sally Quinn?journalist, television commentator, and longtime Washington insider?reveals the late-in-life discovery that her entire life could best be understood as a spiritual quest. Quinn takes us through the many stages of her spiritual awakening: summers spent as a child with her Scots Presbyterian family in the South, where she learned voodoo from the household staff; her trials as a hospitalized military child in Japan during the Korean war; her education at twenty-two different schools; her adventures as a Washington Post reporter; her short tenure as the first female network anchor on the CBS Morning News; her falling in love with the Post's executive editor Ben Bradlee; her caring for a learning- disabled son; and her keeping vigil during her beloved husband's illness and death. These varied and intense experiences birthed a fascination with religion that led to her creating the popular website On Faith, an online community for faith and spirituality.