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Laura Moriarty

Biography

Laura Moriarty

Laura Moriarty is the author of the national bestseller THE CHAPERONE, as well as THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING, THE REST OF HER LIFE, WHILE I'M FALLING and SUNLIGHT FINDS YOU. She received her master’s degree from the University of Kansas and was awarded the George Bennett Fellowship for creative writing at Phillips Exeter Academy. Moriarty lives in Lawrence, Kansas.

Laura Moriarty

Books by Laura Moriarty

by Laura Moriarty - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction

A forbidden love blows open the world of a teenage girl, altering the trajectory of her life, in SUNLIGHT FINDS YOU, which ultimately is a love story set in the past that has much to say about our present.

by Laura Moriarty - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Only a few years before becoming a famous actress and an icon for her generation, a 15-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita to make it big in New York. Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a 36-year-old chaperone who is neither mother nor friend. Young Louise is known for her arrogance and her lack of respect for convention. Ultimately, the five weeks they spend together will change their lives forever.

by Laura Moriarty - Fiction

Leigh is the mother of high-achieving, popular high school senior Kara. Their relationship is already strained for reasons Leigh does not fully understand when, in a moment of carelessness, Kara makes a mistake that ends in tragedy --- the effects of which not only divide Leigh's family, but polarize the entire community.