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Lauren Cowen

Born: in N/A
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Lauren Cowen lives in Long Grove, Illinois - near Chicago.

Biography: Lauren Cowen has written for numerous magazines and newspapers, including Chicago Magazine, Philadelphia Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine and the Los Angeles Times. Her investigative work earned her one of journalism's highest honors, the Sigma Delta Chi gold medal.She taught creative nonfiction writing at the University of Pennsylvania's School of General Studies.


Awards:

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers; Children; Young adult readers

Lauren Cowen on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=lauren+cowen


Selected Titles

Daughters
ISBN: 1852427787 OCLC: 56641647

Serpent's Tail, London : 2004.

Daughters & mothers /
ISBN: 0762401109 OCLC: 36640604

Courage Books, Philadelphia [Penn.] : ©1997.

A collection of essays and photographs of mothers and daughters.

Daughters & mothers :
ISBN: 0762402377 OCLC: 44563495

Running Press, Philadelphia ; ©1998.

  Girlfriends /
ISBN: 076240616x OCLC: 42380560

Running Press, Philadelphia : ©1999.

Grandmothers /
ISBN: 1584794658 OCLC: 58563350

Stewart, Tabori & Chang, New York : 2005.

Fifty duotone portraits of grandmothers with their grandchildren, accompanied by twenty-three essays, pay tribute to the inspirational bond that exists between the two generations regardless of age, culture, and locale.

 

 

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