Biography
Lasky grew up in Indianapolis, and is married to Christopher Knight, with whom she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She received a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in early childhood education from Wheelock College. She is also a non-fiction writer of other books.
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