Books

Education
Westover: Giving Girls a Place of Their Own
A vivid history of a wonderful school for teenage girls from all over the world
Memoir
Four Tenths of an Acre: Reflections on a Gardening Life
A modern pastoral about transforming a bare backyard into a mature garden
Sociology
Without Child: Challenging the Stigma of Childlessness
A book that offers people without children the life-affirming story of themselves
Biography
Louise Nevelson: A Passionate Life
The only biography of this extraordinary and enigmatic American sculptor
Portrait of An Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe
The best-selling biography of one of America's most admired painters

Biography

BOOKS
Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe
Louise Nevelson: A Passionate Life
Without Child: Challenging the Stigma of Childlessness
Four Tenths of an Acre: Reflections on a Gardening Life
Westover: Giving Girls a Place of Their Own


Selected ESSAYS, ARTICLES, and REVIEWS in:
Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction
From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O'Keeffe as Icon
Newsweek Magazine
Rocky Mountain Magazine
The East Hampton Star
The Journal of the Southwest
The Litchfield County Times
The Providence Journal Bulletin
The Village Voice


TEACHING
Fall Writing Festival, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, 2010

Leader of literary discussions, "Time for Ideas in Libraries," sponsored by the Connecticut Council for the Humanities and the Southern Connecticut Library Council, 1989-2002

Associate Professor, English Department, Southampton College of Long Island University, Southampton, New York, 1981-82

LECTURING
Illustrated lectures about O'Keeffe and Nevelson at the Parrish, Springfield, Neuberger, Lyman Allan, and Farnsworth Art Museums and the Naples Museum of Art, 1980 to 2010
Also:
Schlesinger Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harbourfront International Festival of Authors, Toronto
Womanspace of Great Neck, New York
Recursos of Santa Fe, New Mexico

MEMBERSHIPS
The Century Association
The Authors Guild
PEN American Center
Women Writing Women's Lives Seminar, CUNY
Hotchkiss Library of Sharon, board of directors
Sharon Green Preservation Association, board of directors

EDUCATION
Ohio Wesleyan University, Bachelor of Arts, English Literature, 1965

RECOGNITION
Who's Who in America
Who's Who of American Women







Laurie Lisle