Laurie Lisle

My latest book is Westover: Giving Girls a Place of Their Own, which was published by Wesleyan University Press in February of 2009.

This book had its beginning many years ago, when, in the wake of the Women’s Liberation Movement, I was seeing everything with new eyes, especially my three restless years as a boarder at Westover. At the time I wondered if I was being readied for what I regarded as Real Life, but over time I came to realize that my teenage years in the school's enriched environment--not unlike the peaceful, orderly, and high-minded female community imagined in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's novel, "Herland"--had enabled me to imagine the life I really wanted to live.

Besides the books listed here, I have written essays, articles, and book reviews for Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, The Journal of the Southwest, The Village Voice, The Litchfield County Times, The Second Word Thursdays Anthology, and many other publications.

Earlier in my career I worked for Newsweek magazine as well as The Providence Journal-Bulletin, The East Hampton Star, and other magazines and newspapers. I was also an associate professor in the English department at Southampton College of Long Island University.

In recent years I have led literary discussion groups sponsored by the Connecticut Council for the Humanities and given lectures sponsored by the New York Council for the Humanities. I have lectured widely at art museums and universities.

I live with my husband, artist Robert Kipniss, in Westchester County, New York and in northwestern Connecticut.

My literary agent is Charlotte Sheedy at the Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency, 65 Bleeker St., New York, NY 10012. She may be reached at 212-780-9800 or at sheedy@​sll.com.