Laura Brodie
Biography
Laura Brodie
Laura Brodie was born in Columbus, Ohio, raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, and educated at Harvard and the University of Virginia. Her first book, Breaking Out: VMI and the Coming of Women (Pantheon/Vintage 2000), covered the transition to coeducation at America’s last all-male military college. It was featured in The Washington Post and on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show. Her debut novel, The Widow’s Season, grew out of a dissertation chapter on husbands in 17th century drama who fake their deaths in order to spy on their wives. The Widow’s Season won the Faulkner-Wisdom prize for Best Novel-in-Progress. Brodie’s mother-daughter memoir, called Love in a Time of Homeschooling, will be published by HarperCollins in April 2010, and describes one year when she pulled her 10-year-old daughter from the public schools in order to share a special time for learning. Brodie teaches at Washington and Lee University, and lives in Lexington, VA with her husband and three daughters.
Laura Brodie
