num_pages: 384
description: A Paperback OriginalAlso Available as a Hardcover Library EditionNew York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman a journalist for many years collects here her recent essays exploring motherhood as an older mom her life as a reader her relationships with her parents friendship and other topics that will resonate with a large audience. Her voice is wry and relatable her takes often surprising.Meet the Woman Behind the BooksIn this collection of original and previously published nonfiction essays New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman offers readers an introspective look into various facets of her life. Her childhood and school years her successful career as a newspaper reporter the challenge of balance her life as a novelist and a readerLippmans takes on these universal subjects offer as many twists as her award-winning crime fiction. Of the 16 essays only three have appeared in book form before. Game of Crones published online by Longreads in May 2019 has more than 100000 unique views to date.Essays include: Men Explain The Wire to Me Game of Crones My Life as a Villainess My Fathers Bar The 31st StockingFans of Laura Lippman will gain a better understanding in these candid essays of who she is and of the life choices that influenced her writing and helped her to become the successful author she is today.
language: English
title: My Life as a Villainess
publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks