About the Author

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LAURA MORIARTY is the New York Times bestselling author of The Chaperone, as well as The Rest of Her Life, While I’m Falling, and The Center of Everything. She received her degree in social work before returning for her MA in creative writing at the University of Kansas, and she was the recipient of the George Bennett Fellowship for Creative Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. She currently lives in Lawrence, Kansas, where she is a professor of creative writing at the University of Kansas. Visit her online at www.lauramoriarty.net.

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