Elizabeth LaBan

Elizabeth LaBan lives in Philadelphia with her restaurant critic husband and two children. The Restaurant Critic’s Wife is her first adult novel and it will be published by Lake Union Publishing on January 5, 2016. She is also the author of the young adult novel The Tragedy Paper, published by Knopf, which has been translated into eleven foreign languages, and The Grandparents Handbook, published by Quirk Books, which has been translated into seven foreign languages. Elizabeth teaches fiction writing at The University of Pennsylvania. In addition, she is a freelance writer and editor whose work has appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsday and The Times-Picayune, among other publications. She also ghostwrites a weekly column for a national news outlet, and has ghostwritten two books. Elizabeth has a master's in journalism from Columbia University, and a bachelor's in English from Trinity College in Hartford. She was an NBC Page, worked at NBC News in New York, taught journalism at a community college in New Orleans, and was a reporter at a number of small to mid-sized newspapers including The Riverdale Press before she began writing books.