The Lost Chapters: Reclaiming My Life, One Book at a Time
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The Lost Chapters: Reclaiming My Life, One Book at a Time

The Lost Chapters: Reclaiming My Life, One Book at a Time

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Leslie Schwartz (Author)  

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In 2014, award-winning novelist Leslie Schwartz was sentenced to 90 days in county jail for a DUI and battery of an officer of the law. It was the most harrowing and holy experience of her life. Leslie served her time at the tail end of a 414-day relapse into alcohol addiction after more than a decade of sobriety. This memoir of redemption and reading is told through the list of books she read as she served her sentence.
Leslie Schwartz is the author of two literary novels, Jumping the Green, winner of the James Jones Literary Society Awardfor Best First Novel and Angels Crest. In addition to her novels, Schwartz has published short stories, articles, essays and book reviews in The Los Angeles Times, Poets & Writers, Teachers & Writers, Sonora Review, and the online journal Narratively Speaking. A past president of the board of directors for PEN USA, she has taught writing at UCLA Extension, the University of Iowa's Summer Writing Festival, Vroman's Ed, and Homeboy Industries. Schwartz lives in Los Angeles.
  • Contributor: Leslie Schwartz
  • Imprint: Blue Rider Press
  • ISBN13: 9780525534631
  • Number of Pages: 304
  • Packaged Dimensions: 158x240mm
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Release Date: 2018-07-12
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Leslie Schwartz is the author of two literary novels, Jumping the Green, winner of the James Jones Literary Society Awardfor Best First Novel and Angels Crest. In addition to her novels, Schwartz has published short stories, articles, essays and book reviews in The Los Angeles Times, Poets & Writers, Teachers & Writers, Sonora Review, and the online journal Narratively Speaking. A past president of the board of directors for PEN USA, she has taught writing at UCLA Extension, the University of Iowa's Summer Writing Festival, Vroman's Ed, and Homeboy Industries. Schwartz lives in Los Angeles.

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