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Website: http://blackdollcollecting.com

Debbie Behan Garrett has been a black-doll enthusiast since 1991. Her passion for collecting vintage-to-modern black dolls led to the publication of two groundbreaking black-doll reference books: The Definitive Guide to Collecting Black Dolls, Hobby House Press, Inc., 2003 (the first full-color black doll reference), and Black Dolls: A Comprehensive Guide to Celebrating, Collecting, and Experiencing the Passion, 2008 (the first self-published, full-color black doll reference). Her third publication, The Doll Blogs: When Dolls Speak, I listen, is the first electronic book featuring dolls that blog.

Garrett is the cofounder and editor of The Black Doll-E-Zine, “the first and only e-zine (now online group) devoted to collecting Black dolls.” She is also founder and moderator of WeLoveBlackDolls online discussion group. As a several-year member-at-large of the United Federation of Doll Clubs, Ms. Garrett has contributed to their Doll News quarterly publication and is a contributing writer for Doll Castle News. Her articles have also appeared in Dolls Magazine, Doll Collector (formerly Contemporary Doll Collector), British Doll Showcase, on various Internet websites: BlackDollShows.com and in her personal blog, Black Doll Collecting at http://blackdollcollecting.blogspot.com/.

Ms. Garrett, a native Texan, is the married mother of two adult children, Angela and Adam, and doting granny of Angela’s two precocious boys, Caleb and Logan. Her non-leisure time is spent working as a CMT-credentialed, home-based allied health professional for a leading global provider of clinical documentation.

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