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She is the mother of two sons, Emmy award-winning film and television composer, Bear McCreary, and singer-songwriter and music producer, Brendan McCreary. She lives in the Pacific Northwest. Laura Kalpakian is the award-winning American author of more than eighteen novels and several collections of short stories.
Laura Anne Kalpakian (born June 28, 1945) is an American author. She has also published under the pen names Juliet Fitzgerald [1] and Carenna Jane Greye. She is known for her work in the memoir genre. Life and career.
About Laura. Laura Kalpakian was nominated for the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for American Cookery. She won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award (twice), the Anahid Award for an American writer of Armenian descent, the PEN West Award, and the Stand International Short Fiction Competition.
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When reading Laura Kalpakian’s short bio on the back of her newest book, Memory into Memoir: A Writer’s Handbook (University of New Mexico Press, 2021), I was a bit skeptical about the quality of advice within the guide given Kalpakian’s writing résumé largely consists of novels and short story collections.
Jan 19, 2024 · Laura Kalpakian is the author of The Great Pretenders (3.73 avg rating, 618 ratings, 124 reviews, published 2019), The Memoir Club (3.38 avg rating, 361 ...
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Oct 1, 2021 · Memory Into Memoir: a Handbook for Writers (University of New Mexico Press) guides writers toward wrestling the unruly past to the page. The Unruly Past, published by Paint Creek Press tackles Kalpakian’s own unruly past and the divergent cultures within her family.
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Laura Kalpakian has 36 books on Goodreads with 9473 ratings. Laura Kalpakian’s most popular book is The Great Pretenders.