Laurie Lisle

Laurie Lisle is a journalist, biographer, and memoirist who lives in northwestern Connecticut. She writes about the lives of American women, including her own. Besides Word for Word, she has written biographies of artists Georgia O'Keeffe and Louise Nevelson as well as books about women without children, gardening, and educating girls. Her work has been described as "an act of courage" and "elegantly written yet also edgily realistic." For more information see laurielisle.com.