Penguin Speakers Bureau
Biography
Lauren Kessler is the author of six works of narrative nonfiction, including My Teenage Werewolf: A Mother, A Daughter, A Journey Through the Thicket of Adolescence. She is also the author of Pacific Northwest Book Award winner Dancing with Rose (published in paperback as Finding Life in the Land of …
Read moreLauren Kessler is the author of six works of narrative nonfiction, including My Teenage Werewolf: A Mother, A Daughter, A Journey Through the Thicket of Adolescence. She is also the author of Pacific Northwest Book Award winner Dancing with Rose (published in paperback as Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer’s), the Washington Post bestseller Clever Girl, the Los Angeles Times bestseller The Happy Bottom Riding Club, Full Court Press, and the Oregon Book Award-winner Stubburn Twig, which was chosen as the book for all of Oregon to read in honor of the state’s 2009 sesquicentennial.
Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, O, The Oprah Magazine, Salon, and The Nation. She is founder and editor of Etude, the online magazine of narrative nonfiction, and directs the graduate program in literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon. She lives in Eugene, Oregon, with her writer husband, Tom Hager, her three brilliant and faultless children, and a cat that thinks it’s a dog.
Check out Lauren Kesller’s website here and the Etude website here.
Speaking Topics
- Ill-behaved Women (They Make History)
- Immigrants All: What it Means to Be an American
- Mothers and Daughters
- Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer’s
- Eldercare: The Revolution that Must Happen
- Death with Dignity
- Women, Girls, and Sport
- The Writing Life
Featured Book
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My Teenage Werewolf
"To find out what's up with teenage girls, Lauren Kessler goes where no mother has gone before. ... It turns out that that teen monster is still your little girl—just don't let her know that you know it!" —Barbara Ehrenreich, bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed 
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