Laurie Colwin

Laurie Colwin (1944-1992) was born in Manhattan and raised in Long Island, Chicago and Philadelphia. She attended Bard College and Columbia University and worked as a translator and book editor before selling her first story, at the age of twenty-five, to the New Yorker. She went on to publish eight critically acclaimed works of fiction and two beloved collections of essays and recipes – Home Cooking and More Home Cooking. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, ‘if anyone wrote eloquently and magnificently about affairs of the heart, it was Laurie Colwin.
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