Wendy Lesser (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Wendy Lesser was born and brought up in suburban California, a setting she describes as having no “imaginative echo surrounding real places,” as places with more history do. Her father, Murray Lesser, an engineer and writer, was employed by IBM (International Business Machines). When Lesser was six, her parents were divorced. She, her sister, and her mother, also a writer, stayed on in the family’s Palo Alto home. In school, Lesser was taught by a series of unconventional and innovative teachers who brought avant-garde ideas like role playing and the Beat poets’ work into the...
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