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Wendy Lawless
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Wendy Lawless

Wendy Lawless is an actress who has appeared on television, in regional theater, Off-Broadway in David Ives’s Obie-winning play All in the Timing and on Broadway in The Heidi Chronicles. Her essays about being a mom in Hollywood, including “Whatever Happened to Musical Chairs?” have appeared in the local Los Angeles press. She lives in California with her screenwriter husband and their two children.

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Chanel Bonfire will be released on November 12, 2013 in Trade Paperback
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Intersections: A memoir that's hard for the author to read
Glendale News Press, April 4, 2013
...In January 1969, when Wendy Lawless and her sister were living in New York's famed Dakota building, their mother swallowed a bottle of pills and called her husband — their stepfather — at his...
Book Train Staff Pick: ‘Chanel Bonfire’ by Wendy Lawless
Aspen Daily News, March 8, 2013
...Wendy Lawless’s mother, Georgann, was a narcissistic drunk in designer clothes. She could be charming and seductive one moment and horribly cruel the next. For all of the nightmare that...
Memoir roundup: 'Drinking,' eating and other signs of life
USA Today, February 27, 2013
...and cover all shades in between. Story HighlightsLike the PBS series? Read volume 2 of 'Call the Midwife'Wendy Lawless stokes the 'Bonfire'Rapper and raconteur Eddie Huang gets 'Fresh'Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse By Jennifer Worth Ecco,...
New books at Knox County Public Libraries, Feb. 17
Knox News Sentinel, February 13, 2013
...by Margaret Wrinkle NONFICTION nThe Backyard Parables: Lessons on Gardening, and Life by Margaret Roach nChanel Bonfire by Wendy Lawless nThe Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid by Thom Hatch nNaked...
First sentences from new books, Jan. 13
San Francisco Chronicle, January 11, 2013
...of pills and called my stepfather at his hotel to say good-bye. "Chanel Bonfire," a memoir by Wendy Lawless There you are in the picture looking chubby and pompous, and it makes me remember how you told me that time you were afraid of fat people. ...
Howard Sherman: All About My Friends, Indexed For Your Convenience
Huffington Post, January 7, 2013
...yet another light on my biographical quandary. In this case, it is a book by an actress named Wendy Lawless, who I knew causally for nine weeks in 1988 when she played Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Hartford Stage, where I was the press rep. In...
CHANEL BONFIRE: A Memoir
Book Reporter, January 5, 2013
...By the time Wendy Lawless turned 17, she’d known for quite some time that she didn’t have a normal mother. But that didn’t stop her from wanting one... Georgeann Rea didn...
“If ‘Mommie Dearest’ and ‘Running With Scissors’ Had a Love Child” — Meet Wendy Lawless, Author of This Summer’s Hottest Read, “Chanel Bonfire”
RoadRunner, May 10, 2013
...The final was scheduled for Saturday, where Simmonds would come up against top seed Timea Babos of Hungary. This was the first time a South African made it to the final of the women’s event in Jabavu, Soweto. "It was a tough game, with really tough......
Intersections: A memoir that's hard for the author to read
Glendale News Press, April 4, 2013
...In January 1969, when Wendy Lawless and her sister were living in New York's famed Dakota building, their mother swallowed a bottle of pills and called her husband — their stepfather — at his...
Book Train Staff Pick: ‘Chanel Bonfire’ by Wendy Lawless
Aspen Daily News, March 8, 2013
...Wendy Lawless’s mother, Georgann, was a narcissistic drunk in designer clothes. She could be charming and seductive one moment and horribly cruel the next. For all of the nightmare that...
Memoir roundup: 'Drinking,' eating and other signs of life
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune, February 28, 2013
...second season of Call the Midwife begins on PBS on March 31. - Jocelyn McClurg Chanel Bonfire By Wendy Lawless Gallery Books, 295 pp. *** 1/2 Wendy Lawless's biting memoir recounts her unstable childhood under the care - if you'd call it that -...
Memoir roundup: 'Drinking,' eating and other signs of life
USA Today, February 27, 2013
...and cover all shades in between. Story HighlightsLike the PBS series? Read volume 2 of 'Call the Midwife'Wendy Lawless stokes the 'Bonfire'Rapper and raconteur Eddie Huang gets 'Fresh'Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse By Jennifer Worth Ecco,...
New books at Knox County Public Libraries, Feb. 17
Knox News Sentinel, February 13, 2013
...by Margaret Wrinkle NONFICTION nThe Backyard Parables: Lessons on Gardening, and Life by Margaret Roach nChanel Bonfire by Wendy Lawless nThe Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid by Thom Hatch nNaked...
Wendy Lawless
Eventful, February 5, 2013
...Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 7:00 PM Book Soup 8818 Sunset Boulevard , West Hollywood , California United States...