The Balloon Lady and Other People I Know

Jeanne Marie Laskas

Duquesne University Press, 1996 - Literature - 178 pages

This is the first title in a new series Emerging Writers in Creative Nonfiction. This collection of sixteen essays encompasses a wide range of fascinating characters: Tom Cruise, Geraldo Rivera, the woman who pilots balloons, the man who trains and races pigs and many other extraordinary people. Jeanne Marie Laskas is a highly talented story teller who looks at the world from her unique perspective.

Contents

• A Vacuum Cleaner Salesman: 1
• Magic: 10
• The Balloon Lady: 17

About the author

Jeanne Marie Laskas writes the "Significant Others" column for the "Washington Post Magazine," which reaches 1.5 million people weekly. A contributing editor to "Esquire," she also writes for "GQ," "Life," "Allure," "Redbook," "Good Housekeeping," "Health," "Reader's Digest," & "This Old House." She is the author of "The Balloon Lady & Other People I Know" & "We Remember: Women Born at the Turn of the Century Tell the Stories of Their Lives in Words & Pictures." She lives & farms with her husband, along with their poodle, mutts, mules, sheep, & other animals, at Sweetwater Farm in western Pennsylvania.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Balloon Lady and Other People I Know; Contemporary Casebook Series; Emerging writers in creative nonfiction
• Author: Jeanne Marie Laskas
• Publisher: Duquesne University Press, 1996
• Original from: the University of Virginia
• Digitized: Jul 3, 2007
• ISBN: 0820702714, 9780820702711
• Length: 178 pages