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Laura Zigman

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Laura Zigman grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, and graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Radcliffe Publishing Procedures Course.

She spent ten years working in New York in book publishing where she was a publicist for Times Books, Vintage Books, Turtle Bay Books, Atlantic Monthly Press, and Alfred A. Knopf.

After moving to Washington, D.C. and working briefly as a project manager for The Smithsonian Associates and a consultant for Share Our Strength, an anti-poverty non-profit group, she finished her first novel. Animal Husbandry was published in 1998 by The Dial Press and became a national bestseller. It was published in fourteen countries and in 2001 the film based on the book, Someone Like You, starring Ashley J...more

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Average rating: 3.05 · 2,190 ratings · 282 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Animal Husbandry 3.19 avg rating — 996 ratings — published 2000 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Dating Big Bird 2.97 avg rating — 621 ratings — published 1999 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Her 2.93 avg rating — 341 ratings — published 2002 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Piece of Work 2.85 avg rating — 221 ratings — published 2006 — 19 editions	My rating:
	História da Vaca Velha Teoria da Vaca Nova 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1998	My rating:
	L'ex by Laura Zigman, Florence Bellot (Translator) 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Get Over Yourself!: How to Get Real, Get Serious, and Get Ready to Find True Love by Laura Zigman, Patti Novak 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Get Over Yourself!: How to Get Real, Get Serious, and Get Ready to Find True Love by Patti Novak, Laura Zigman 3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Get Over Yourself!: How to Get Real, Get Serious, and Get Ready to Find True Love by Patti Novak, Laura Zigman 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	My rating:

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“Peaks and valleys. That's what life comes down to, in the end. Fucking geography.”
― Laura Zigman, Piece of Work

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