My Life as a Villainess: Essays

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.

Author: Laura Lippman
Publisher: William Morrow
Page Count: 288pp
Size: 5 x 7
Notes: paperback, deckle edge
Date of Publication: August 4, 2020
ISBN: 978-0062997333