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Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina grew up in Springfield, Mass. and is now the Dean of Commonwealth Honors College at UMass Amherst. Gerzina appears regularly on radio and television, hosting the nationally-syndicated public radio program “The Book Show” from 1997 to 2012, and has been a commentator on National Public Radio and Vermont Public Radio. She has written seven books including Black England: Life Before Emancipation (1995), a New York Times “notable book of the year.”