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Lauren Burke

Born:
Connection to Illinois: Burke is from Chicago.

Biography: Lauren Burke is a writer and podcaster from Chicago, Illinois. Her work focuses on womens history, writing, and travel. Burkes Podcast with her co-author Chapman is: Bonnets at Dawn. The link is listed above.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction; History; Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers; Children; Young adult readers

Web: https://www.chroniclebooks.com/products/why-she-wrote
Web: https://soundcloud.com/bonnetsatdawn


Selected Titles

P.I. Jane: The Salad Days
ISBN: 163529875X OCLC:

Caliber Comics 2019

Jane Day's a twenty-something temp-by-day, detective-by-night…and also sometimes during the day (don’t tell Chad). Jane straddles two worlds: Reality - in boring grayscale - and her Imagination - in full, vibrant color. Jane uses the fantasy to cut through the tedium, living as much inside her head as out. Her wheelhouse is the weird. Not necessarily the macabre, but just the...strange. Collecting the first two volumes, several years of the P.I. Jane webcomic, into a mightly voltron of pop culture references and pro-am investigation, The Salad Days takes you for a ride-along on such cases as bootlegger minors, fun at the roller derby, a trip to River Heights to get her Nancy Drew on, plus visits from favorites Pie and Cake. All the bonus stuff from volumes one and two are here - commentary, pencils 'n inks, pop culture glossariers, character design, Pie v. Cake a-plenty, guest contributors and more! So re-meet Jane Day...again...for the first time with The Salad Days.

Why She Wrote: A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers
ISBN: 179720209X OCLC: 1187223952

Chronicle 2021

Dive into the fascinating, unexpected, and inspiring stories behind 18 of the English language's greatest women writers in this graphic anthology. Why She Wrote brings together both famous and obscure writers from the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries and highlights their history, hardships, and influence-on the written word and each other-through accessible and engaging comics. Framed by short biographies, bibliographies, and fun facts--

 

 

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