title: Kate Lehrer
text: Kate Lehrer (born Kate Tom Staples; December 17, 1939) is an American writer, novelist and book reviewer. She was a panelist on the Diane Rehm Book Club on National Public Radio.
  
  She is the widow of writer and journalist Jim Lehrer.
  
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  1939 births
  Living people
  American novelists
  Writers from Texas
  Writers from Washington, D.C.
  People from Waco, Texas