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Lauren Kessler
narrative nonfiction author and magazine journalist/ essayist

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PUBLISHED: Aug.05.2010

My Teenage Werewolf: A Mother, a Daughter, a Journey Through the Thicket of Adolescence

From Publishers Weekly: Kessler, the author of five narrative nonfiction books, explores the mother/daughter relationship at a particularly vulnerable point—the cusp of her daughter's entry into adolescence. At 12, Lizzie is often at odds with her author mom, who describes her chilly relationship with her own mother. Not wanting to repeat a distant and dissatisfying relationship...

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PUBLISHED: Jun.30.2007

Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's

One journalist's riveting -- and surprising -- in the trenches look at Alzheimer's. Like many children of Alzheimer's sufferers, Lauren Kessler, an accomplished journalist, was devastated by the disease that seemed to erase her mother's identity. But suppose people with Alzheimer's are not slates wiped blank? Suppose they experience friendship and loss. romance and jealousy, joy...

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About Lauren

Lauren Kessler is the author of five works of narrative nonfiction, including Pacific Northwest Book Award winner Dancing with Rose (published in paperback as Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's),...

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Causes Lauren Kessler Supports

Planned Parenthood

Alzheimer's Association

Lauren Kesslernarrative nonfiction author and magazine journalist/ essayist

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About Lauren

Causes Lauren Kessler Supports

Lauren Kessler
narrative nonfiction author and magazine journalist/ essayist