M. G. Lord

M. G. Lord’s most recent book is Astro Turf, a family memoir about aerospace culture during the Cold War. She is also the author of Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll. Since 1995, she has been a regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review and that paper’s Arts & Leisure section. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including ARTNews, Travel & Leisure, Vogue, the Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, and The New Yorker. Before becoming a freelance writer, Lord was for twelve years a syndicated political cartoonist and columnist based at Newsday. A graduate of Yale University, she is a trustee of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale and has received resident fellowships at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and other venues. Lord teaches in the Master of Professional Writing program at USC.