Penguin Speakers Bureau
Biography
Lauren Kessler is the author of five works of narrative nonfiction, including FINDING LIFE IN THE LAND OF ALZHEIMER’S: One Daughter’s Hopeful Story, the Washington Post bestseller CLEVER GIRL, the Los Angeles Times bestseller THE HAPPY BOTTOM RIDING CLUB, Full Court Press and the Oregon Book Award-w …
Read moreLauren Kessler is the author of five works of narrative nonfiction, including FINDING LIFE IN THE LAND OF ALZHEIMER’S: One Daughter’s Hopeful Story, the Washington Post bestseller CLEVER GIRL, the Los Angeles Times bestseller THE HAPPY BOTTOM RIDING CLUB, Full Court Press and the Oregon Book Award-winner STUBBORN TWIG, which was chosen as the book for all of Oregon to read in honor of the state’s 2009 sesquicentennial.
Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, O, The Oprah Magazine, Salon, and The Nation. She is founder and editor of Etude, the online magazine of narrative nonfiction, and 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.
Check out Lauren’s website at www.laurenkessler.com.
Browse Etude at http://etude.uoregon.edu/autumn2007
Speaking Topics
- Ill-behaved Women (they make history…)
- Immigrants All: What it Means to Be an American
- Mothers and Daughters
- Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer’s
- Eldercare: The Revolution that Must Happen
- Death with Dignity
- Women, Girls, and Sport
The Writing Life
- Fact, fiction, and the porous line between them
- Truth, fact, and nonfiction storytelling
- The writer’s fine art of self-sabotage
- Why writers write
- Making the past come alive: using “dead” material to make “live” prose
- The few, the proud, and the readers: are books really necessary?
Featured Book
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FINDING LIFE IN THE LAND OF ALZHEIMER'S
"Excellent… a powerful lesson in the humanity of those we often see as tragically bereft of that quality."—Publishers Weekly
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