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Lauren Kessler is the author of five works of narrative nonfiction, including
Pacific Northwest Book Award winner Dancing with Rose (published in
paperback as Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's), Washington Post
bestseller Clever Girl and Los Angeles Times bestseller The Happy
Bottom Riding Club -- which David Letterman, in fierce competition with
Oprah, chose as the first (and only) book for the Dave Letterman Book Club.
Kessler appeared twice on his late-night show. She is also the author of Oregon
Book Award winner Stubborn Twig, which was chosen as the book for all
Oregon to read in honor of the state’s 2009 sesquicentennial.
Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times
Magazine, O magazine, Utne Reader, The Nation, newsweek.com and salon.com. She
is a national speaker and workshop leader. The founder and editor of Etude, the
online magazine of narrative nonfiction, she directs the graduate program in
literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon. She lives in Eugene, Oregon,
with her writer husband, Tom Hager, her three brilliant and faultless children
and a cat that thinks it’s a dog. |
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