Laura Van Wormer

Raised in Darien, Connecticut, Van Wormer spent a year at the University of Arizona before switching to the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. There she studied to be a television writer, anchorwoman, and talk show host, “in case I never got to be a novelist,” she recalls. Upon graduating with a B.S. degree in 1978, she landed a job as secretary to the editor-in-chief of Doubleday & Company, a position from which she was promoted up through the ranks to editor. A member of the Author’s Guild, the Mystery Writers of America, and Sisters in Crime, Laura Van Wormer divides her time between Manhattan and a 1920’s English-style farmhouse in Meriden, Connecticut, where she is President of the Friends of the Library and sits on the board of the Augusta Curtis Cultural Center.