about the author
Amy Boesky
Author of What We Have: One Family's Inspiring Story About Love, Loss, and Survival
Amy Boesky teaches English literature and nonfiction writing at Boston College. Originally from the Detroit area, she has worked and studied in various places, including Oxford, England, Washington, D.C., and the Boston area, where she has lived since 1992. Her scholarship has focused on seventeenth-century English literature and culture, including the history of timepieces and temporal forms. She’s written and published widely in this area, from a scholarly book on Renaissance utopias to articles on gifts of timepieces to Queen Elizabeth. She has also written books for children and young adults—she wrote a book in verse for children, Planet Was (Little, Brown, 1990), numerous titles in the Beacon Street Girls’ series, and for several years was one of the principal ghostwriters for the bestselling Sweet Valley High series. What We Have is her first book of creative nonfiction.
Amy lives in Chestnut Hill with her husband, Jacques, and her two daughters, Sacha and Libby.
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"A memoir, both touching and painful"
The Boston Globe
"Genetic testing questions"
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"Capturing the essence of real-world girls"
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"Love Conquers (Almost) All"
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Featured Book
What We Have
"Utterly breathtaking—What We Have is a memoir that reads like a novel. Amy Boesky gives so much hope and inspiration that it stirs readers to look inward and examine their own closely held beliefs about fate and destiny.”
—Patricia Wood, author of Lottery
Speaking Topics
- BRCA1 and 2—Hereditary Breast/Ovarian Cancers
- What it Means to Live with Risk
- A Sister’s Part: Genetic Cancers and the Psychology of “Who Gets What”
- Motherhood in the Era of Genetic Testing
- Patents, Privacy, and Other Puzzles in the Age of BRCA1
- Writing (and Teaching) Memoir
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