Lauralee summer biography
Seventeen-year-old, college-bound Lauralee Summer never thought the details of her life were so extraordinary that they would show up in newspapers and soar.
Learning Joy from Dogs without Collars is a memoir about growing up homeless..
Summer, Lauralee 1976-
PERSONAL:
Born 1976, in CA; daughter of Elizabeth Summer. Education:Harvard University, B.A.
(children's studies), 1998; University of California, Berkeley, graduate study (education).
ADDRESSES:
Agent—c/o Author Mail, Simon & Schuster, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020.
CAREER:
Student and author.
WRITINGS:
Learning Joy from Dogs without Collars: A Memoir, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2003.
SIDELIGHTS:
Lauralee Summer was raised by a peripatetic but loving mother who moved from state to state, and lived cheaply—sometimes even making a temporary home in a shelter.
Living on welfare in order to be able to spend as much time with her daughter as possible, Elizabeth Summer passed along her love of books, as well as "cultivating her daughter's sense of wonder and interest in the world," according to Boston Globe contributor Jan Gardner.
With no car, no stable home, no father that Lauralee knew, and little mone
