Author, Book Collaborator, Writing Teacher, Editor, Photographer

Lynn Lauber is an author, book collaborator, creative writing teacher, and developmental editor. Her fiction, published by W.W. Norton, White Girls and 21 Sugar Street, were reviewed in The New York Times, the New Yorker, and the LA Times, with Sugar Street receiving a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly.

Her memoir/writing book, Listen to Me, Writing Life into Meaning, also published by Norton, is an exploration of writing as self-discovery. Her essays have been anthologized and appeared in The New York Times and the Boston Globe. 

Her ghostwriting and book collaborations have included memoir, medical nonfiction, self-help, and inspiration, including a New York Times bestseller. She has coauthored fiction and nonfiction, including with bestsellers Louise Hay and Wayne Dyer.

She has taught a personal writing/memoir workshop at UCLA since 2000, as well as at numerous other venues, including Ohio State University, and community colleges, libraries and senior centers. She has also taught Writing and Healing workshops for health websites.

A long-time editor and audiobook scriptwriter for Random House, she’s worked on over 400 titles by such authors as Elizabeth Strout, Erik Larson, Toni Morrison, Oliver Sacks, Jonathan Kellerman, Alice Munro, Gore Vidal, John Updike, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Brokaw, and Jimmy Carter.  She abridged Sue Grafton’s Alphabet Series, from A is for Alibi through her final book, Y is for Yes.

She has also worked as a freelance editor, with a specialty in developmental editing.  Her photography has received awards.