Stephanie M. Kelly

Stephanie M. Kelly was born and spent her childhood in Wilmington, Delaware. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 with a B.S. in Economics and a B.A. in English, she worked in Paris, France, in Accounting, and then on Wall Street from 1994 through 2009, analyzing real estate investment trusts (“REITs”). She currently works at a publicly traded REIT in Columbia, Maryland. In between retiring from Wall Street and joining her current firm, she authored REIT Roadmap (2nd edition published in 2012 under her maiden name, Krewson).

Ms. Kelly met her husband, Matthew,at a Philadelphia Phillies baseball game in 2010 and their son, William, was born in 2012. She and William enjoy walks every weekend during which they have found hundreds of four-leaf clovers.

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4-Leaf Clovers

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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.
Martin Tupper

There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing poetry.
Emily Dickinson

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
James Russell Lowell

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler

A book is like a man-clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
John Steinbeck

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.
Ernest Hemingway

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Joseph Brodsky

A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there-that of the pulse, the heart beat.
Henry Miller

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
George Gissing

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
Umberto Eco

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Stephanie M. Kelly

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