My Life as a Villainess: Essays

New 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 Books…

In this collection of new and previously published essays, New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman offers her

take on a woman's life across the decades. Her childhood and school years, her newspaper

career, her experiences as a novelist—Lippman finds universal touchstones in an

unusual life that has as many twists as her award-winning crime fiction.

Essays include:

· Men Explain

The Wire to Me

· Game of

Crones

· My Life as

a Villainess

· My Father’s

Bar

· The 31st Stocking

These candid essays offer long-time readers insight into the

experiences that helped Lippman become one of the most successful crime

novelists of her generation.

© 2020 William Morrow Paperbacks (Lydbog): 9780063017757

Udgivelsesdato

Lydbog: 4. august 2020