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About the Author
Lauren Kessler is the author of five works of narrative nonfiction, including Oregon Book Award winners Stubborn Twig and Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's. Other titles include Washington Post bestseller Clever Girl, Los Angeles Times bestseller The Happy Bottom Riding Club and Full Court Press.
Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, O 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.
Kessler 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.