Ep 481: Booktok sensation E. Lockhart on her latest novel, ‘Family of Liars’

E. Lockhart on her latest novel, Family of Liars, and how her books went viral on TikTok. Should you fix typos as you write? And we have 3 copies of Book Lovers by Emily Henry to give away.

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Writer in residence: E. Lockhart

E. Lockhart is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller We Were Liars and its prequel, Family of Liars. Other novels: Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero, Again Again, Genuine Fraud, Fly on the Wall, Dramarama, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks and the Ruby Oliver quartet: The Boyfriend List, The Boy Book, The Treasure Map of Boys, and Real Live Boyfriends. How to Be Bad was co-written with Lauren Myracle and Sarah Mlynowski.

Disreputable History was a Printz Award honor book and a finalist for the National Book Award. We Were Liars won the Goodreads Choice Award and was Amazon's #1 YA novel of 2014. Genuine Fraud is a Times bestseller and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times book prize.

Lockhart has a doctorate in English literature from Columbia University. Her field was 19th-century British novels. In 2013, she chaired the committee on Young People's Literature for the National Book Awards.

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