Leslie Lehr

Author - Screenwriter - Essayist

Leslie Lehr - prize-winning novelist
and author of Wife Goes On
Leslie Lehr is a truth teller - a rare writer who untangles the realities of women's lives without flinching, while making you laugh, cry, and nod in understanding with every word.
--Leslie Morgan Steiner - Washington Post columnist, editor of Mommy Wars and author of Crazy Love, a New York Times bestseller

Underlying the sass and verve of Lehr's prose are trenchant insights on relationships, friendships and motherhood--not to mention the kind of wisdom that comes from hard knocks plus a few good laughs!
--Samantha Dunn, author of Faith in Carlos Gomez

Wife Goes On is a tantalizing romp through the world of the newly divorced, featuring a group of women who are vulnerable, smart, resourceful, wonderfully resilient, and wickedly funny.
--Hope Edelman, bestselling author of Motherless Mothers

Leslie Lehr is the award winning author of five books, including her book club hit, Wife Goes On. Her debut novel, 66 Laps, won the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Prize. Her nonfiction books and essays have been praised from "Today Show" to "Oprah," and excerpted in collections ranging from Arrianna Huffington's On Becoming Fearless, to the Tarcher series "Now Write!" "Heartless", an independent film that aired on USA TV, has been screening across Europe for the past ten years. Lehr is a graduate of the the School of Cinematic Arts at USC and earned her MFA at Antioch. She teaches in the Writers Program at UCLA Extension and works as a manuscript consultant.

Selected Works

NOVELS
WIFE GOES ON
Kensington Books
66 Laps
Villard/Random House
ESSAYS
"Welcome to the Club"
The Honeymoon's Over, Warner Books
"I Hate Everybody"
Mommy Wars - featured on the TODAY SHOW, Random House
FILM
Heartless
Amco Ent./Santa Monica Pictures
NONFICTION
Welcome to Club Mom
Meadowbrook Press
Wendy Bellissimo: Nesting
Featured on "OPRAH"