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Laurie Lisle

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Providence, RI, The United States

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Laurie Lisle's most recent book is her memoir, Word for Word: A Writer's Life. Publisher Weekly's BookLife says "it pulses with intellectual discussions, lived feminist history and its resultant tensions…It's great for fans of Vivian Gornick's Fierce Attachments and Rebecca Solnit's Recollections of My Nonexistence."

She also wrote the first biographies of artists Georgia O'Keeffe and Louise Nevelson. Her best-selling biography of O'Keeffe, Portrait of an Artist, first published in 1980, has been translated into six languages. It is included in Five Hundred Great Books by Women.

Her biography about sculptor Louise Nevelson, known for her dramatic black walls and assemblages, is titled Louise Nevelson: A Passionate Life.

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	Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe 4.15 avg rating — 2,466 ratings — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Four Tenths of an Acre: Reflections on a Gardening Life 3.32 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Without Child: Challenging the Stigma of Childlessness 3.50 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Word for Word: A Writer’s Life 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Westover: Giving Girls a Place of Their Own (Garnet Books) 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Childfree Across the Disciplines: Academic and Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children by Davinia Thornley (Contributor), Berenice Fisher (Contributor), Melanie Brewster (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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A Writer’s Jottings is Back

I’m back.

After blogging for a decade, I took a break from monthly posts for a while. But as E.B. White said, “A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.”

Sometimes A Writer’s Jottings has been retrospective, reflective, or reportorial, but almost always it has been about what it’s like to live a writing life.

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“also studied the work of social scientists, eager to discover the experiences of my childless predecessors and peers. “Science” may be the wrong word for the findings of the sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers who have made the study of nonparents a specialty, since their various sampling and analytical methodologies are often incompatible. For instance, they do”
― Laurie Lisle, Without Child: Challenging the Stigma of Childlessness

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“Sometimes she viewed her painting as a favor returned for what nature so generously gave her.”
― Laurie Lisle, Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe

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“She did not feel alone under the big sky, perceiving it rather as a companion.”
― Laurie Lisle, Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe

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