My Life as a Villainess

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, & other topics that will resonate with a large audience. Her voice is wry & relatable, her takes often surprising.

Meet the Woman Behind the Books...

In this collection of new & previously published nonfiction essays, New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman offers her take on a woman's life across the decades. Her childhood & 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...

Since Laura Lippman’s debut, she has been recognized as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction & named one of the “essential” crime writers of the last 100 years. Stephen King called her “special, even extraordinary,” & Gillian Flynn wrote, “She is simply a brilliant novelist.” Her books have won most of the major awards in her field & been translated into more than 25 languages.