JANE ISAY

“A Tolstoyan observer, with keen intuition and a compelling command of the art of storytelling, helps us readers look back, look inward, and thereby understand how we become who we are.” — Robert Coles, Harvard Medical School

Jane Isay has been an editor for over forty years. She discovered Mary Pipher’s REVIVING OPHELIA, commissioned Patricia O’Connor’s bestselling WOE IS I and Rachel Simmons’ s ODD GIRL OUT, and edited such nonfiction classics as PRAYING FOR SHEETROCK and FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS. She’s written several books of her own, specializing in the fragile, fraught, and complicated territory of family dynamics; they include including SECRETS AND LIES, MOM STILL LIKES YOU BEST, WALKING ON EGGSHELLS, and UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. She lives in New York City, not too far from her children and grandchildren.

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