Background
She was born on July 28, 1950, in Culver City, California. Her father was gossip columnist Lloyd Shearer, and her mother was Marva Peterson. The parents of her father Lloyd had immigrated from Austria.
She was born on July 28, 1950, in Culver City, California. Her father was gossip columnist Lloyd Shearer, and her mother was Marva Peterson. The parents of her father Lloyd had immigrated from Austria.
She attended Stanford University for undergraduate studies in history and the English language. In 1971 she graduated with a bachelor"s degree and married Strobe Talbott, who was the roommate of Derek Shearer.
She had an older brother, Derek, and a twin brother, Cody. She spent her childhood in Los Los Angeles Shearer had two sons, Adrian and Devin, and at the time of her death she had one granddaughter.
She had cancer and died at her residence in Washington District of Columbia on May 19, 2009.
She wrote stories for the Christian Science Monitor and the British publication The Sunday Times while in Eastern Europe. Talbott was reporting for TIME in the same region.
She served as a spokesperson for the Cr Union National Association in the 1980s. Brooke Shearer had worked as a private investigator for a period.
She used the alias Connecticut Walker when writing stories for Parade.
During the 1992 United States. Presidential Election Shearer was an aide to Hillary Clinton. When Bill Clinton became President of the United States in 1993 Shearer was put in charge of the White House Fellows. Shearer was an employee in the United States. Department of the Interior during the second term of the Clinton Administration.
Later she served as the head of the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW).