Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott was born in San Francisco in the late 1950s, during a time when a movement of questioning and ideological, religious, and sexual liberation was beginning to take shape in America. Her father was a writer from the Beat Generation, and her mother decided to become a lawyer in her forties. Lamott experienced the 1960s and 1970s up close, following the wild pace of the era, going through drugs and alcoholism, until she eventually found herself in a unique faith in God. She has written two autobiographical books ("Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year" and "Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life") that resonated greatly in America, as well as five novels: "Hard Laughter," "Rosie," "Joe Jones," "All New People," and "Crooked Little Heart." Today, she lives in Northern California with her son, Sam.