Lori Leachman

Author Bio

Lori Leachman is a professor of economics at Duke University. She has been teaching economics at the university level for over thirty-five years. She earned her Ph.D. in economics in 1987, from the University of South

Dr. Leachman never had an aspiration to write creatively. However, in 2012 when her father died, she knew she had a story that deserved to be told. She shared that story with a number of writer friends, trying to pique their interest. They all told her that it was her story, and she needed to be the one to write it. Over the course of the next few years, Ms. Leachman let the story gestate. In 2015, while on vacation in France, she began writing vignettes. Within a few months she had an outline of the story. Over the next two years the story presented here emerged.

Lori Leachman lives and teaches in Durham, North Carolina for half of the year. The other half of the year she lives in Sedona, Arizona where she writes and paints, and is close to her two grown sons who live on the West Coast.

Follow the link below to read a literary review of the book:

Http://www.headbutler.com/reviews/the-King-of-halloween-and-Miss-Firecracker-Queen-a daughters-tale-of-family-and-football/

The King of Halloween and Miss Firecracker Queen earned a Silver Medal form Literary Titans (May 2019) for complex characters, thought provoking themes and intricate worlds: https://literarytitan.com/2019/05/03/literary-titan-book-awards-may-2019/