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Jeanne Marie Laskas

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Jeanne Marie Laskas is the author of eight books, including the New York Times bestseller Concussion, the basis for the 2015 Golden Globe–nominated film starring Will Smith. She is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, a correspondent at GQ, and a two-time National Magazine Award finalist. Her stories have also appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Esquire. She serves as Distinguished Professor of English and founding director of the Center for Creativity at the University of Pittsburgh, and lives on a farm in Pennsylvania with her husband and two children.

Jeanne Marie Laskas Books

Stories Can Save Us book cover

Stories Can Save Us

Matt Tullis
To Obama book cover

To Obama

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Concussion book cover

Concussion

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Hidden America book cover

Hidden America

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Fifty Acres and a Poodle book cover

Fifty Acres and a Poodle

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Growing Girls book cover

Growing Girls

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The Exact Same Moon book cover

The Exact Same Moon

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