Laurie Devine

Laurie Devine is an award-winning novelist and journalist who specializes in international best-selling family sagas about women of passion and integrity in the developing world. Her U.S. publisher is Simon & Schuster, but Andre Deutsch Publishers in London made her worldwide reputation for riveting storytelling in exotic Mideast and Greek contemporary settings. Born in Pennsylvania, she has spent much of her life living in Europe and the Middle East and now has settled in Mexico. She holds B.A.s from Penn State in journalism and political science. Laurie was a foreign correspondent in Cairo, acting bureau chief at Time Magazine in London, a columnist for The Boston Globe and, news producer for WBZ-TV in Boston.

In mid-life, she earned a M.A. in theology from the University of San Francisco and served for more than a decade as a board certified hospice and healthcare chaplain, providing end-of-life care to 10,000 dying patients and their families in Phoenix. She is a Secular Franciscan and a spiritual director.

Laurie is currently writing a mystery novel about divine love focusing on Francis of Assisi (the Catholic saint) and Rumi (the mystical Persian poet) set in 1220 during the Fifth Crusade.