![]() Between 1994 and May 2002 – when Red Dress Ink called with an offer to buy THE THIN PINK LINE – Lauren worked as a book reviewer, a freelance editor and writer, and a window washer, making her arguably the only woman in the world who has ever both hosted a book signing party and washed the windows of the late best-selling novelist Robert Ludlum. In November 1994, Lauren left the bookstore to finally take a chance on herself as a writer. There, she bought and sold for the better part of 11 years. Upon graduation, she began work at the venerable independent spacebookseller, now sadly defunct as such, Klein’s of Westport. Throughout college, she worked semester breaks as a doughnut salesperson, a job that she swears gave her white lung disease from all the powdered sugar she breathed. She also has what she calls her “half-Masters” in English from Western Connecticut State University (five courses down, another five to go…someday!). She is a graduate of the University of Connecticut at Storrs, where she majored in psychology. Lauren grew up in Monroe, CT, where her father owned a drugstore at which her mother was the pharmacist. ![]()
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