Lauren Kessler
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Lauren Kessler | |
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Nationality | American |
Education | Northwestern University (BSJ) University of Oregon (MS) University of Washington (PhD) |
Genre | Non-fiction |
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Lauren Kessler is an American author, and immersion journalist who specializes in narrative nonfiction. She teaches storytelling for social change at the University of Washington and for the Forum of Journalism and Media in Vienna.
Biography
Lauren Kessler's education includes Ph.D., University of Washington; M.S., University of Oregon, and B.S.J., Northwestern University.
Kessler is the author of eleven works of narrative nonfiction including 2023 Oregon Book Award-winner, Free: Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home" (Sourcebooks, 2022), A Grip of Time: When prison is your life (Red Lightning Books, 2019), Raising the Barre: Big Dreams, False Starts and My Midlife Quest to Dance The Nutcracker (Da Capo Press, 2015); Counterclockwise: My Year of Hypnosis, Hormones and Other Adventures in the World of Anti-Aging (Rodale, Inc., Emmaus, Pennsylvania, 2013); and My Teenage Werewolf: A Mother, A Daughter, A Journey Through the Thicket of Adolescence (Penguin Books, 2011).
Her book, Dancing with Rose (renamed Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's in its paperback edition), won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award and was named a Best Book of the Year by Library Journal. Her Oregon Book Award-winning book, Stubborn Twig, was chosen to be the statewide "Oregon Reads" selection in celebration of the state's 150th birthday.
Kessler is also author of
Kessler's journalism and essays have appeared in
She was inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame (University of Washington) and the Hall of Achievement (University of Oregon).
References
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Kessler, Lauren (13 October 2009). Clever Girl: Elizabeth Bentley, the Spy Who Ushered in the McCarthy Era. Harper Collins. p. 130. ISBN 9780061740473. Retrieved 4 September 2017.