Leslie Maitland is a former award-winning reporter and national correspondent for The New York Times who specialized in legal affairs and investigative reporting. After breaking stories on the FBI’s undercover “Abscam” inquiry into corruption in Congress, she moved to The New York Times Washington Bureau to cover the Justice Department. Among other projects since leaving The Times, she began extensive research for CROSSING THE BORDERS OF TIME, including five reporting trips to Europe, one to Cuba, and another to Canada. Maitland lives in Bethesda, Maryland with her husband and a 12-pound Cockapoo named Thisbe. Here, she talks about her lifelong need to write her mother's story. 

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