Quinn Bradlee

Early Life

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Quinn Bradlee was born on April 29, 1982 at the old George Washington hospital in Washington, DC. At 3 months old he had heart surgary at which the doctors found two wholes in his heart. They pached up the middle whole and let the smaller whole close up on its own. He was born Josiah Quinn Crowninshield Bradlee though he just goes by Quinn Bradlee, to Ben Bradlee, the former editor of the Washington Post and journalist Sally Quinn, who was the first ancore woman in Ameirca. Like his father he is also a member of the Boston Brahmin Crowninshield family. Bradlee went to the Lab School of Washing for twelve years and then on to the Gow school in Buffalo, New York. Though he never graduated college, he went to Landmark College for two years, as school for the learning disabled, then to American University for a year, and then to the New York Film Accademy for a year. His maternal grandfather was Lt. Gen. William Wilson "Buffalo Bill" Quinn. His grandfather was a G2 officer durring WWII in France and Germany; he captured Herman Goring. Though General Quinn wasn't there the day it happened, his regiment illibrated the infamouse concentration camp, Dachau. Durring World War II, Bradlee's grandfather was a colenel and then a retired three star general. Bradlee has found out that his maternal grandmother, Sara Bette Williams, who's family was originally from Wales, was a direct descendant from Rhodi The Great, first king of united Wales as well as Joan Tudor, who was a first cousin of Henry VII of England.

Career

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Bradlee first worked at a indipendant film company called Muheim Motion Pictures for a year in Maryland, and is now working at HealthCentral in Arlington, VA; there he has a website called, www.friendsofquinn.com. It is a social networking site for people with learning disbilities. They have a list four LD websites four LD progrmas,sixteen schools, ninty four college that have LD programs. Bradlee has made two documentaries, one on Fragile X and another on VCFS, and syndrome that he was born with but he was not diagnosed untill he was fourteen. Because of his book that he has written about his life called, A Different Life; Growin up Learning Disabled and Other Adventures, he as on Good Morning America, the Diane Reime Show, Don Imus, and the Today Show with Barbara Walters.

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