Leslie Lehr

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Author - Screenwriter - Essayist

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR WIFE GOES ON

“A celebration of second acts wrapped up in a humorous, heartfelt homage to the power of friendship.”
- Arianna Huffington, On Becoming Fearless

"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

"Wife Goes On is a tantalizing romp through the world of the newly divorced..."
- Hope Edelman, Motherless Mothers

Like Olivia Goldsmith before her, Leslie Lehr has done the impossible: She's made divorce into a winning, funny and inspiring activity...WIFE GOES ON isn't fictionalized self-help or mundane chick-lit; it's about loving, escaping and living again… Just like real life.
--Tod Goldberg, Simplify

Sexy and fabulous!
- Jerrilyn Farmer, Madeleine Bean Mysteries

Lehr keeps the plot moving with madcap hijinks and tender moments.
- Publishers Weekly
 


Praised by Publishers Weekly and featured on NPR's Beyond Words, Wife Goes On is a follow-up to Lehr's debut novel, 66 Laps, and was inspired by her "Welcome to the Club" essay in the 2007 anthology, The Honeymoon's Over.

Lehr wrote the humorous parenting books, Welcome to Club Mom, and The Happy Helpful Grandma Guide, excerpted on FisherPrice.com. She also wrote the celebrity design book, Wendy Bellissimo: Nesting, featured on "Oprah."

Her essay in Mommy Wars,"I Hate Everybody," was lauded on the Today Show. "Heartless," an original screenplay, is a romantic thriller screening in Europe for the sixth year after a run on USA-TV.

With an MFA from Antioch and a B.A. from USC's School of Cinematic Arts, Lehr teaches in the Writers Program at UCLA Extension and contributed to Now Write, for Tarcher. She is a member of the Authors Guild, WGA, Women in Film, Pen, AWP, USC Cinema-TV Alumni, and the Women's Leadership Council of L.A.
 


Selected Works

BOOKS
Wife Goes On
Kensington Press
66 Laps
Villard/Random House
Welcome to Club Mom
Meadowbrook Press
Wendy Bellissimo: Nesting
Featured on "OPRAH"
ESSAYS
"Welcome to the Club"
The Honeymoon's Over, Warner Books, 2/2007
"I Hate Everybody"
Mommy Wars - featured on the TODAY SHOW, Random House, 2006/paperback March/2007
FILM
Heartless
Amco Ent./Santa Monica Pictures



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