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| About Jeanne Marie Laskas |
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 Jeanne Marie Laskas is the author of five books, including her newest, Growing Girls (Bantam Dell, 2006), the award-winning The Exact Same Moon (Bantam Dell, 2003), and the book that started it all, the widely acclaimed Fifty Acres and a Poodle (Bantam Dell, 2000). From 1994 to 2008, she was a regular, syndicated columnist for The Washington Post Magazine, where her "Significant Others" essays appeared weekly and attracted a loyal following.
Most of her magazine feature stories now appear in GQ, where she is a correspondent writing on everything from Iraq to plastic surgery to coal miners. Formerly a contributing editor at Esquire, her stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including Best American Sportswriting 2000, 2002, and 2007. Her earliest essays and features are compiled in the award-winning The Balloon Lady and Other People I Know (Duquesne, 1996). Jeanne Marie is the voice behind "Ask Laskas" in Readers' Digest, where she dispenses wisdom with zero authority but plenty of common sense. (Note: her husband, Alexander Levy, is a shrink who generously helps.) A professor in the creative writing program at the University of Pittsburgh, she lives with her husband and two daughters at Sweetwater Farm in Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania.
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