My Life as a Villainess: Essays - Hardcover

Lippman, Laura

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0063007150 ISBN 13: 9780063007154

Publisher: William Morrow, 2020

Synopsis

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman, a journalist for many years, collects here her recent essays exploring  motherhood as an older mom, her life as a reader, her relationships with her parents, friendship, and other topics that will resonate with a large audience.  Her voice is wry and relatable, her takes often surprising.

Meet the Woman Behind the Books...

In this collection of original and previously published nonfiction essays, New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman offers readers an introspective look into various facets of her life. Her childhood and school years, her successful career as a newspaper reporter, the challenge of balance, her life as a novelist and a reader—Lippman’s takes on these universal subjects offer as many twists as her award-winning crime fiction. Of the 16 essays, only three have appeared in book form before. “Game of Crones,” published online by Longreads in May 2019, has more than 100,000 unique views to date.

Essays include:

·         Men Explain The Wire to Me

·         Game of Crones

·         My Life as a Villainess

·         My Father’s Bar

·         The 31st Stocking

Fans of Laura Lippman will gain a better understanding in these candid essays of who she is and of the life choices that influenced her writing and helped her to become the successful author she is today.

About this title

About the Author:

Since Laura Lippman's debut in 1997, she has been recognized as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction and named one of the "essential" crime writers of the last 100 years. Her books have won most of the major awards in her field and been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives in Baltimore and New Orleans with her family.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0063007150
• ISBN 13: 9780063007154
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288