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Bauer turns from legalese to kids’ books

Contributing Reporter
Published Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Alice Bauer LAW ’86 spent 10 years writing pamphlets about legal aid. Now, she writes young-adult novels about fairy godmothers.

Bauer — whose first published book “No Castles Here” came out Oct. 23 under the pen name A.C.E. Bauer — took a less-than-traditional route to her current career. Although the jump from the legal world to the world of children’s books might not be an obvious one, a decade of practicing law left her feeling “burnt out” and in 1996, Bauer resigned from her job at New Haven Legal Assistance to pursue writing full-time. Within its first month in print, “No...

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