Lauren Kessler, Author . HarperCollins $26.95 (372p) ISBN 978-0-06-018519-0
Kessler (The Happy Bottom Riding Club: The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes) gamely attempts to create a true-life romantic spy-thriller from the life of Elizabeth Bentley, who in 1945 confessed to being a Soviet spy, implicated Julius Rosenberg and...
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Lauren Kessler, Author . Viking $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-670-03859-6
The growing number of readers who have relatives with Alzheimer's will warm to Kessler's excellent account of the months she worked as an unskilled resident assistant in an Alzheimer's facility on the West Coast. This facility, which she
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Lauren Kessler, Viking, $25.95 (246p) ISBN 978-0-670-02169-7
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
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Lauren Kessler, Author Plume Books $20 (368p) ISBN 978-0-452-27301-6
Kessler portrays a Japanese American family from the early 1900s to WWII internment camps and after. (Nov.)
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Lauren Kessler, Author Random House (NY) $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-375-50124-1
""Flying makes me feel like a sex maniac in a whorehouse,"" declares Florence ""Pancho"" Lowe Barnes in Kessler's colorful biography of the female flyer, raconteur and scandalmonger. Drawing on personal interviews and other primary sources, Kessler...
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Lauren Kessler, Author Thunder's Mouth Press $13.95 (209p) ISBN 978-0-938410-92-8
Kessler's anecdotal evidence that some '60s activists have turned their values into socially and politically conscious lives is only mildly convincing and even less interesting. Each of four parts, including ``Right Livelihood'' and ``Counter/Culture
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Lauren Kessler, Author Random House (NY) $25 (347p) ISBN 978-0-679-41426-1
The Japanese immigrant experience is documented here in a detailed social history of three generations of an Oregon family. Beginning with the life of 16-year-old Masuo Yasui, who arrived in 1903 from an agricultural village in the Honshu region of...
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Lauren Kessler. Rodale, $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-60961-347-1
Kessler (My Teenage Werewolf), director of the University of Oregon’s multimedia narrative journalism graduate program, takes on the marketing, (sometimes pseudo-) science, and the psychology of the anti-aging industry in this funny personal tale....
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Lauren Kessler. Da Capo, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7382-1831-1
Kessler, an author and journalist, was enjoying a very active midlife both professionally and personally when she decided to take up ballet again. This thoughtful shake-up of her autopilot existence brought about a new attitude toward accepting one’s
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Lauren Kessler, Author, Laura Kessler, Author Dutton Books $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-94035-7
Jody Runge took the job of women's basketball coach at the University of Oregon in 1993 and in her first year vitalized a moribund program, even getting an invitation to the NCAA tournament. But the following season is the author's focus here....
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Lauren Kessler. Red Lightning, $24.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-68435-078-0
Kessler, a journalist and University of Oregon professor, chronicles her experience leading a writing group at Oregon State Penitentiary in this poignant work of narrative nonfiction. The book provides insight into life inside a maximum-security...
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Lauren Kessler. Sourcebooks, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-72823-651-3
In this empathetic and visceral account, journalist Kessler (A Grip of Time) documents the achievements and setbacks of six formerly incarcerated people as they attempt to reenter society. Vicki, a recovering heroin and methamphetamine addict, hopes
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Lauren Kessler. Balance, $30 (288p) ISBN 978-0-306-83575-9
Journalist Kessler (Free) recounts grieving the deaths of her husband and daughter in this moving memoir. The through line is Kessler’s journey along the Camino Francés, an ancient 500-mile pilgrimage route from Spain to France, which she took out...
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