About Lisa Rogak
Lisa Rogak is the author of more than 40 books. Her works have been mentioned in The Wall Street Journal, Parade Magazine, USA Today, Family Circle, and hundreds of other publications, and she has appeared on Oprah. One of her recent books, Howard Dean in His Own Words, made the BookSense Extended List in January 2004, and Barack Obama in His Own Words won accolades from the Senator himself.
Her next book is Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King, a full-length biography to be published in January, 2009.
Lisa grew up in Glen Rock, New Jersey, and spent most of the 1980s living in New York City. In 1988, she headed north and landed in New Hampshire.
Through the years, in addition to writing books on an almost-schizophrenic range of topics, she has published newsletters and books, started a greeting card company for dogs and cats, bought and sold vintage funeral equipment, and served as ghostwriter. Today she is content just to write books.
A classically-trained pianist, she plays jazz & blues piano and upright bass and accordion with a variety of ensembles. She likes to get lost in old bookshops and junk stores and bakes like a fiend—as long as it’s anything chocolate—which earns her many fans. She loves to travel, and in addition to roaming around South Carolina, her recent trips have brought her to venues as diverse as the Turks & Caicos, Paris and the Champagne region of France, and Palermo, Sicily, where she wandered the halls of the Catacombes of the Capuchin Monks with a wild grin on her face.
She also collects monkey spoons, an old funeral custom that she would love to see brought back.
After spending two decades in the wilds of New Hampshire, Lisa now calls Charleston, South Carolina, home.
