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| Lisa, Live! Wednesday, March 28, 7 to 9 PM |
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| We had a great time at “Lisa, Live!” a talk by bestselling author and Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Lisa Scottoline, Wednesday, March 28. Lisa Scottoline, recently named by the Pennsylvania Library Association as Honorary Chair for its PA Forward advocacy campaign, described why libraries matter to her. She emphasized the importance of family, friends and community, themes that permeate her writing. She feels that is what makes her legal thrillers different from those of her male counterparts in the mystery writing business. In a rapid fire delivery, reminiscent of her humorous columns published in the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Sunday Arts Section, Scottoline had the audience laughing at her stories about family eccentricities, awkward dates, bad marriages, and manuscript rejections (along with the sweet revenge of encountering the publisher who issued her pick slip at a conference). In a twenty-minute audience question and answer session, she described her working habits -- she writes every day from 9 AM to “Jon Stewart” with the TV on (“my friend”). When asked what she is currently reading, she told the audience she has recently been reading books about the war, especially Sebastian Junger’s 2010 book War about the campaign in Afghanistan’s Korangal Valley, and Jon Krakauer’s 2009 biography of Pat Tillman Where Men Win Glory: the odyssey of Pat Tillman. In her role as Honorary Chair for the PA Forward library advocacy campaign, Lisa endorsed the Pennsylvania Library’s Association’s initiative in partnering with state and local organizations to emphasize the role libraries play in promoting basic literacy, information literacy, civic and social literacy, health literacy, and financial literacy. Each ticket included a copy of Lisa Scottoline’s new book Come Home, which will be available after April 10. Audience members received a voucher for Come Home to be picked up in several weeks.   |
Lisa Scottoline graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. degree in English and a concentration in the Contemporary American Novel. National Book Award Winner Philip Roth was among her professors. Scottoline then graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School where she served as an Associate Editor for the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. She began her legal career clerking for Pennsylvania Superior Court President Judge Edmund B. Spaeth, Jr., then joined Dechert, Price & Rhoads in Philadelphia as an associate. In 1986, she left the law firm to raise her newborn daughter and began writing legal fiction part-time. In 1994, Scottoline re-entered the legal world as an administrative law clerk to Chief Judge Dolores K. Sloviter of the U. S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit while beginning a new career as a novelist. Her first novel Everywhere That Mary Went, published in 1994 by HarperCollins, became a bestseller, nominated for the Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America. Scottoline’s second novel Final Appeal won the Edgar Award in 1995. Since then she has written eleven more bestselling legal suspense novels featuring characters in the fictional cutthroat Philadelphia law firm of Rosato and Associates, plus four stand-alone psychological suspense novels. Her 2005 novel Devil’s Corner was recently optioned to become a TV movie by Turner Network Television. |
Her new novel Come Home, Abby insists he was murdered and pleads with Jill to help find his killer. Jill reluctantly agrees to make inquiries, and discovers that things don't add up. As she digs deeper, her actions threaten to rip apart her new family, destroy their hard-earned happiness, and even endanger her own life. Come Home reads with the break-neck pace of a thriller while exploring the definition of motherhood. It asks the questions: Do you ever stop being a mother? Can you ever have an ex-child? What are the limits and love of family? Scottoline is currently President of the Mystery Writers of America and a visiting professor at The University of Pennsylvania Law School where she teaches a course she created entitled "Justice and Fiction." | |
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Scottoline’s column “Chick Wit” appearing in the Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer features quirky family revelations, shaggy pet stories, and good-natured kvetching about the ills of modern life. Her columns, some written in collaboration with her daughter Francesca Serritella, are collected in three non-fiction books:
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arriving in stores April 10, features Jill Farrow, a typical suburban mom who has finally gotten her life back on track after a divorce. She is a pediatrician about to remarry a great guy with a daughter Megan, a happily over-scheduled thirteen-year-old, juggling homework and swim team. Jill's life turns upside-down when ex-stepdaughter, Abby, shows up on her doorstep late one night and delivers shocking news — Jill's ex-husband is dead.