Laurie Lico Albanese
Laurie Lico Albanese is an award-winning novelist and journalist. Her novels and memoir have been praised by the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Library Journal, Cosmopolitan magazine, and others.
Her 2017 novel, Stolen Beauty brings to life the art, politics and intrigues behind Gustav Klimt’s famous golden portrait, “Adele Bloch-Bauer I.” The NY Journal of Books calls it, “A gripping historical novel… love, sex, tense relationships, events spiraling out of control, family dynamics, personal conflict as well as war—coupled with real people and true history.”
Laurie is co-author of The Miracles of Prato (Morrow, 2009 / Booksense Summer Reading Selection 2009). She's the author of Blue Suburbia: Almost a Memoir (Perennial, 2004 Booksense Best Books of the Year selection) and Lynelle by the Sea (Putnam, 2000), a novel.
She was born and raised in the suburbs of New York on Long Island, and lived in Chicago 1986-1994, where her two children were born. She's a graduate of New York University, and recently earned her MFA at Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine.
She’s the recipient of a Catherine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship, a NJ State Council on the Arts fellowship, and co-recipient of a Hadassah-Brandeis Research Fellowship. She's a longtime resident of Montclair, NJ. Her books have been translated into Spanish, French, German and Portuguese.
For more about Laurie and her works, go to http://www.laurielicoalbanese.com/
Reviews of Stolen Beauty
Stolen Beauty is a work of art itself.
