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Nancy's Bookshelf: Two guests who each experienced closed adoption

NPR's Steve Inskeep is co-host of Morning Edition, easily the most widely heard radio news program in the U.S. His fourth book, "Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America," explores and details Abraham Lincoln's political skills. 

Also, Author Andrea Ross looks back at her identity, chronic illness, and connecting with one's origins and the natural world in "Unnatural Selection: A Memoir of Adoption and Wilderness."

A new installment of The Writer's Room closes the show.

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Nancy Wiegman has a master's degree in French linguistics from Indiana University and taught yoga and foreign languages at CSU Fresno and the College of Charleston before moving to Chico in 1990.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.