Mary-Lou Weisman
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Author Biography: Mary-Lou Weisman lives in Westport, Connecticut, with her husband, Larry. She attended Brandeis University and Bryn Mawr College. She began her career as a journalist and columnist for the New York Times. Between 1998 and 2004 she served as a contributing commentator on Public Radio International's Savvy Tr.... more
Author Biography: Mary-Lou Weisman lives in Westport, Connecticut, with her husband, Larry. She attended Brandeis University and Bryn Mawr College. She began her career as a journalist and columnist for the New York Times. Between 1998 and 2004 she served as a contributing commentator on Public Radio International's Savvy Traveler, and wrote a feature length film for Paramount Pictures.Her passions include her husband, Larry, traveling with her husband, Larry, writing, reading, teaching and, until recently, when her rotator cuffs shredded, long distance swimming.
Mary-Lou has a special flair for social satire, and for mixing humor with the most sober of subjects. Her first book, Intensive Care:A Family Love Story (Random house and iUniverse ) is such an example. New Republic reviewer Maggie Scarf called this debut book "A classic." The late Erma Bombeck called her best-selling second book, My Middle Aged Baby Book (Workman Publishing) "A perfect gift for middle agers and those in denial." Mary-Lou's collected essays, Traveling While Married (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) some of which first appeared in the New York Times Travel section, are pure satire. The Philadelphia Inquirer review compared this book's humor to that of Erma Bombeck. Mary-Lou's last book is a biography Al Jaffee's Mad Life, generously illustrated by Al Jaffee, (HarperCollins). Art Spiegelman called the book, "An unnerving biography with a moving graphic novel hidden inside it." Playing House in Provence: How Two Americans Became a Little Bit French, a memoir, is her fifth book.