working for The Boston Globe, Easton co-authored John F. Kerry: A Complete Biography by The Boston Globe Reporters Who Know Him Best, with fellow Globe reporters Michael Kranish and Brian Mooney. The book was published in 2004, during Massachusetts Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign. Personal life Easton grew up in California and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1983, Easton was married to Ronald Brownstein; they had two children before divorcing. On November 27, 2004 she married Russell Schriefer, a Republican political strategist who was the senior advisor to the 2012 presidential campaign of Mitt Romney. In May 2007, Washington Monthly named Easton and Schriefer to its list of Washington "power couples". They live with their daughter in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Bibliography Reagan's Ruling Class: Portraits of the President's Top 100 Officials, Pantheon, 1982, co-authored with Ronald Brownstein Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Ascendancy, Simon & Schuster, 2002 John F. Kerry: The Complete Biography by The Boston Globe Reporters Who Know Him Best, PublicAffairs, 2004, co-authored with Michael Kranish and Brian Mooney References External links American biographers American political commentators American columnists American women columnists American political writers American political journalists Place of birth missing (living people) Fortune (magazine) people Living people University of California, Berkeley alumni Harvard Institute of Politics 1958 births American women biographers 21st-century American women