Sherrod Brown’s Wife Write Book About Senate Race

Sherrod Brown’s campaign for U.S. Senate has spawned more than just an electoral victory. It has also spawned a new book. Senator-elect Brown told Newscenter 7 his wife, Pulitzer-prize winning writer Connie Schultz, is completing a book for Random House Publishing about this year’s contentious Ohio Senate race.

Schultz’s work is called “And His Lovely Wife” and will chronicle her experiences on the campaign trail, supporting her husband. Sen.-elect Brown said his wife is “hard at work” this week at a Washington, D.C., hotel working on a “few chapters.”

Schultz took a leave of absence from her columnist position with the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper to campaign alongside her husband. She recently told “The Hill”, a Capitol Hill newspaper, “It was interesting to go from being a woman who is paid to give her opinion to a wife who gives her husband’s opinions.” The book is dedicated to “every woman who has ever felt anonymous,” she adds.

Brown and his wife reside in Avon, in Northeast Ohio’s Lorain County. Their campaign effort helped Rep. Brown defeat incumbent-Sen. Mike Dewine of Xenia by a double-digit margin in this year’s Senate election.

Brown takes over as Ohio’s junior Senator in January. Of his new job, Brown tells us, “I acknowledge that it’s intimidating, but I’ve prepared for this.”