Lauren Kessler
Lauren Kessler is the author of ten books, among them Stubborn Twig, which received the Frances Fuller Victor Award for the year's best work of literary non-fiction, Clever Girl about Elizabeth Bentley the spy who ushered in the McCarthy Era, and the Los Angeles Times best-seller and Oregon Book Award finalist The Happy Bottom Riding Club, a biography of aviatrix Florence Pancho Barnes.
Kessler's literary nonfiction and essays have appeared in The Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, Salon, The Nation and Oregon Quarterly. She writes regularly about the craft of writing for Writer's Digest and has published articles in a variety of magazines. The founder and editor of Etude, an online magazine devoted to new and emerging voices in literary non-fiction, she directs the graduate program in literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon in Eugene.
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