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A Writer’s Jottings shares ideas, insights, and information about writing from my four decades as a journalist, biographer, and memoirist. It reflects on the pleasures and perils of the writing life and, at times also illuminates the ways artists live and work.

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Laurie Lisle

I'm a journalist, biographer, and memoirist who writes about the lives of American women, including my own.