Lauren was born in New York but became the gal she is today in Baltimore, Maryland. She likes to think that the water fountains at St. Matthew School that inspired Tom Clancy were the same that inspired her, but in all likelihood it was the blacktop playground where every child born before municipal parks became fashionable, learned to fight and dream.

 

After graduating from Baltimore Polytechnic High School with no hopes of ever becoming an engineer, Lauren graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan Law School, distinguishing herself as a lover of baggy sweatshirts and bottles of Snapple. She practiced law in New York, D.C. and Maryland before giving what was left of herself to raising her two children. After several months of building her stamina with Sodoku puzzle all-nighters, she began to write ‘Til the Well Runs Dry, a novel set largely in Trinidad and loosely based on her grandmother’s story.

 

Lauren lives in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. with her husband and two children and she is working on writing as many novels as time will permit.