Laura Harrington
Author of Alice Bliss: A Novel
Works by Laura Harrington
Associated Works
The Actor's Book of Scenes from New Plays: 70 Scenes for Two Actors, from Today's Hottest Playwrights (1988) — Contributor — 80 copies
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- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA
New York, NY, USA
Rochester, NY, USA - Occupations
- novelist
playwright
screenwriter
lyricist
librettist
teacher of playwriting - Awards and honors
- Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction 2012
Levitan Award (MIT) 2009
Massachusetts Cultural Council award in playwriting
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Before we went to Vietnam, Billy was an artist who specialized in drawing birds, he found himself in his artwork and in the study of the winged creatures. Sharing their love of nature, he and Nell spent a lot of time wandering the woods near their home in upstate New York studying birds and their habitat. Along with the tragedy of her brother’s injuries, Nell’s best friend (and Billy’s girlfriend) has disappeared mysteriously and it is feared that she has become the victim of a serial killer.
A Catalog of Birds is a unique story that is both a searing anti-war story and a novel of family faith and love. The author gives us characters that are complex and very human in this sensitive story of a family whose lives have been torn apart by war.… (more)