Jeanne Marie Laskas is an American writer and professor. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms The meaning of the word professor ( Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science teacher of highest rank) varies
Since 1994 she has been a regular, syndicated columnist for The Washington Post Magazine, where her "Significant Others" essays appear weekly. The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated Newspaper in Washington D Many of her feature stories now appear in GQ, where she is a Correspondent. GQ (originally Gentlemen's Quarterly) is a monthly men's Magazine focusing upon Fashion, style and culture for men through articles Formerly a Contributing Editor at Esquire, her stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including Best American Sportswriting. Esquire is a Men's magazine by the Hearst Corporation with a strong literary tradition She also is the voice behind "Ask Laskas" in Readers' Digest and writes the "My Life as a Mom" column for Ladies' Home Journal. Reader's Digest is a monthly general-interest family Magazine co-founded in 1922 by Lila Bell Wallace and DeWitt Wallace. Ladies' Home Journal is a Magazine which first appeared February 16, 1883 and eventually became one of the leading magazines of the 20th Century
A professor in the creative writing program at the University of Pittsburgh, she lives with her husband, Alexander Levy, and two daughters at Sweetwater Farm in Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania. The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a non-sectarian coeducational independent state-related, "public" research University Scenery Hill is an area within North Bethlehem Township in Washington County, Pennsylvania.
Born in 1958, she was educated at the University of Pittsburgh, where she earned a MFA. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Books
- Growing Girls: The Mother of All Adventures, nonfiction (New York: Bantam Dell, 2006).
- The Exact Same Moon: Fifty Acres and a Family, nonfiction (New York: Bantam Dell, 2003).
- Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm, nonfiction (New York: Bantam Dell, 2000).
- We Remember: Women Born at the Turn of the Century Tell the Stories of Their Lives in Words and Pictures, (editor), nonfiction (New York: Morrow, 1999).
- The Balloon Lady and Other People I Know, nonfiction (Pittsburgh: Duquense University Press, 1996).
Sources
Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2006. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000162231.
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