Jeanne Marie Laskas is theNew York Timesbestselling author of six
books including Hidden America andConcussion, which inspired the
Golden Globe-nominated film.Formerly a contributing editor
atEsquire,and a syndicated weekly columnistatThe Washington
PostMagazine,she has been writing for national magazines for
20years, with work appearing inThe New Yorker,The New York Times
Magazine,Smithsonian Magazine,O-The Oprah Magazine,Allure, Ladies
Home Journal, and many others. Her work has appeared in numerous
anthologies, includingBest American Magazine Writing 2008andBest
American Sportswriting 2000,2002,2008,2010and2012. She has won more
than a dozen Gold Quill awards for Excellence in Journalism, and
her piece about coal mining, "Underworld," was a finalist in
feature writing for the 2007 National Magazine Awards.Her earliest
essays and features are compiled inThe Balloon Lady and Other
People I Know.
Laskaswrites regularly forThe New Yorker, The New York Times
Magazine, andGQ, where she is a correspondent.She is a professor at
the University of Pittsburgh, where she is director ofThe Writing
Program, and founding director of The Center for
Creativity.Shelives on a horse farmwith her husband and two
daughters.
“A literary miracle. In effortlessly lucid prose, Laskas tells
stories that spellbind precisely because they remind us of the
center that quietly holds America together.”—Robert Draper, author
of Do Not Ask What Good We Do
“In this thoroughly entertaining study of what some people do that
other people would never do, journalist Laskas makes her subjects
sing.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Each of these profiles rings true.”—*The Huffington Post
“At a time when American workers seem most prized for their ability
to serve as campaign props, Hidden America comes as a breath of
fresh air with no political slant, no hidden motive.”—Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette
“Hearing [these] voices, it’s impossible not to see the world a
little differently.”—The Daily Beast, Hot Read
“It’s not a stretch to use the name Studs Terkel in the same
sentence with the name Jeanne Marie Laskas. She’s one hell of a
journalist, a world-class storyteller. This is not just a good
read, it’s an important one.”—Linda Ellerbee
“At once heartwarming, funny, sad, ironic, and most of all,
insightful.”—Bob Schieffer
“A finely crafted look behind the curtains of everyday life—think
Dirty Jobs for the literate set.”—Mike Sager, author of The Someone
You’re Not
“A wondrous book, fierce and intimate in its investigations...Like
Studs Terkel if he wrote novels and Tom Wolfe if he wrote about
working folk.”—Ron Carlson, author of Five Skies and The Signal
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