Brooke Lloyd Shearer was an American private investigator, journalist, employee of the US Department of the Interior, aide to Hillary Clinton, and wife of long-time Brookings Institution president Strobe Talbott.
14 Facts About Brooke Shearer
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Brooke Shearer's father was gossip columnist Lloyd Shearer, and her mother was Marva Peterson.
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Brooke Shearer had an older brother, Derek, and a twin brother, Cody.
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Brooke Shearer attended Stanford University for undergraduate studies in history and the English language.
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Brooke Shearer had two sons, Adrian and Devin, and at the time of her death she had one granddaughter.
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Brooke Shearer died from cancer at her Washington, DC residence on May 19,2009.
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Brooke Shearer wrote stories for The Christian Science Monitor and the British publication The Sunday Times while in Eastern Europe.
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Brooke Shearer began assisting Sylvia Porter after she and her husband moved to Washington, DC in 1974.
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Brooke Shearer served as a spokesperson for the Credit Union National Association in the 1980s.
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Brooke Shearer had worked as a private investigator for a period.
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Brooke Shearer used the alias Connecticut Walker when writing stories for Parade.
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When Bill Clinton became president of the United States in 1993 Brooke Shearer was put in charge of the White House Fellows.
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Brooke Shearer was an employee in the US Department of the Interior during the second term of the Clinton administration.
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Brooke Shearer became the first director of the Yale World Fellows program at Yale University after she and her husband moved to New Haven, Connecticut, in 2001.