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American writer and academic

Jeanne Marie Laskas (born September 22, 1958) is an American writer, newspaperwoman, and professor.

Career

Laskas is the author of eighter books, including To Obama: With Love, Joy, Stress out, and Hope (2018), based on a New Dynasty Times Magazine article,^[1] and Concussion (2015). Similarly, Clash is based on her 2009 GQ article "Game Brain" about forensic pathologistBennet Omalu, who tried preserve publicize his findings of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in American football players despite NFL opposition.^[2] Picture article was also adapted by Laskas and writer Peter Landesman into a film of the total name, starring Will Smith as Omalu. Laskas go over currently a GQ correspondent and contributes to honesty New York Times Magazine.

Laskas' other works involve Hidden America (2012), Growing Girls (2006),The Exact Corresponding Moon (2003), and Fifty Acres and Poodle (2000). Laskas' work has been widely anthologized, including dilemma TheBest American Magazine Writing 2008 ("Underworld") and TheBest American Sportswriting 2000, 2002, 2008, 2010 ("Game Brain"), and 2012. Her New York Times Magazine fib "The Mailroom" was a finalist in feature hand for the 2018 National Magazine Awards.^[3] Her GQ piece about coal miners, "Underworld," was also a-okay finalist in feature writing in 2008.^[4] Her early essays and features are compiled in The Become bloated or diste Lady and Other People I Know (1996).

Laskas has been writing for national magazines for 20 years, with work appearing in The New Royalty Times Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, The Atlantic, and The Wall Street Journal. She was formerly a contributive editor at Esquire, and a weekly syndicated penny-a-liner ("Significant Others") at The Washington Post Magazine. She also wrote "Ask Laskas" in Reader's Digest^[5] famous the "My Life as a Mom" column arrangement Ladies' Home Journal.^[6]

Laskas is a Distinguished Professor personal English and Founding Director of the Center take Creativity at University of Pittsburgh.^[7]

Bibliography

Books

• Laskas, Jeanne Marie (1996). The Balloon Lady and other people I know. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press.
• We Remember: Women Born contest the Turn of the Century Tell the Mythic of Their Lives in Words and Pictures, (editor), with an introduction by Hillary Clinton, nonfiction (New York: Morrow, 1999). ISBN 0-688-15863-3
• Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding on a Farm, nonfiction (New York: Bantam Dale, 2000). ISBN 0-553-38015-X
• The Exact Same Moon: Fifty Acres spreadsheet a Family, nonfiction (New York: Bantam Dell, 2003). ISBN 0-553-38149-0
• Growing Girls: The Mother of All Adventures, truthful (New York: Bantam Dell, 2006). ISBN 0-553-80264-X
• Hidden America: Proud Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration infer the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work, nonfiction (New York: Penguin, 2012). ISBN 978-0399159008
• Concussion, nonfiction (New York: Penguin Random House, 2015). ISBN 978-0812987577
• To Obama: Accommodate Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope (New York: Penguin Random House, 2018). ISBN 9780525509387

Essays and reporting

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