Jeanne Marie Laskas
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Jeanne Marie Laskas is an American writer and professor.
Since 1994 she has been a regular, syndicated columnist for The Washington Post Magazine, where her "Significant Others" essays appear weekly. Many of her feature stories now appear in GQ, where she is a Correspondent. Formerly a Contributing Editor at Esquire, her stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including Best American Sportswriting. She also is the voice behind "Ask Laskas" in Readers' Digest and writes the "My Life as a Mom" column for Ladies' Home Journal.
A professor in the creative writing program at the University of Pittsburgh, she lives with her husband, Alexander Levy, and two daughters at Sweetwater Farm in Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania.
Born in 1958, she was educated at the University of Pittsburgh, where she earned a MFA.
[edit] Books
- Growing Girls: The Mother of All Adventures, nonfiction (New York: Bantam Dell, 2006).
- The Exact Same Moon: Fifty Acres and a Family, nonfiction (New York: Bantam Dell, 2003).
- Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm, nonfiction (New York: Bantam Dell, 2000).
- We Remember: Women Born at the Turn of the Century Tell the Stories of Their Lives in Words and Pictures, (editor), nonfiction (New York: Morrow, 1999).
- The Balloon Lady and Other People I Know, nonfiction (Pittsburgh: Duquense University Press, 1996).
[edit] Sources
Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2006. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000162231.
