SARAH PAYNE STUART

"Witty, acerbic . . . hilariously sarcastic.” — The Wall Street Journal

Sarah Payne Stuart grew up in Concord MA, and was educated at Harvard, where she was one of the first women editors of the Lampoon. She became a copywriter, working at advertising agencies in Boston, and then New York City. She has written five books, including two novels, a book of humor with Patricia Marx, and a family history about her cousin (once removed) Robert Lowell. She has also written screenplays, essays, and book reviews, her work appearing on HBO, and in The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review. Her most recent book of narrative nonfiction PERFECTLY MISERABLE: GUILT, GOD, AND REAL ESTATE IN A SMALL TOWN was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Kirkus Best Book of the Year in Nonfiction. In 2016, she was selected as a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. She divides her time between Maine and New York.