Elizabeth LaBan: The Origin Story of a Successful Novelist

   

Photo courtesy of Andrea Cipriani Mecchi

Elizabeth LaBan is the bestselling author of five novels and one nonfiction book, including Beside Herself, Not Perfect, The Restaurant Critic's Wife, and The Tragedy Paper, which has been translated into eleven languages. She's also a former high school classmate. We learned to write under the watchful eye of an erudite English teacher. On the pod, she talks about her journey from NBC Page to novelist, the importance of raising the stakes in storytelling, and her advice for every writer she meets.

Elizabeth and Jon in our Yearbook photo circa…not telling you!

Elizabeth earned a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, and a bachelor's in English from Trinity College in Hartford. She lives in Philadelphia with her restaurant critic husband Craig and two children (when they are home from college!).