| Laurie's first book, Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You, was published by HarperCollins in February 2004 (Perennial, January 2005) and received starred reviews in Kirkus and Library Journal, as well as outstanding reviews from publications as varied as the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Publisher's Weekly, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and USA Today. Her book has been translated and published in Finland and Japan, and is forthcoming in France. Anything You Say, a BookSense selection, was a finalist for a PEN/Hemingway Award, and it won a Violet Crown Award from the Writers' League of Texas and the Jesse Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. One of the stories from the collection,"Something About a Scar," won the 2005 Edgar Award for Best Short Story. Anything You Say explores the lives of five female police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Although the stories are fiction, they come out of Laurie's experience working as a uniformed police officer for the Baton Rouge Police Department in the 1980s. Laurie
is currently working on a novel, The Hour of Two Lights,
also for HarperCollins (estimated pub date: 2008) and a memoir,
Losing My Gun. |
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