Profile
Lorraine Dusky
Biographies & Memoirs, General Nonfiction
- Profile View
24687
- Books
4
- Member Since
Sep 2015
- Gender
Female
- Country
United States
- Born
13 June
- Profession
Author, Journalist
About
Lorraine Dusky is an award-winning journalist, editor and author who prefers to write stories that will make a difference. Her controversial memoir, BIRTHMARK, published in 1979, was the first from a mother to write about the grief of giving up a child to adoption.
She began her career as a newspaper reporter when she was 14, writing for her hometown newspaper. Her goal was always to break out of old-fashioned "women's news," yet her life and writing has been greatly shaped by the daughter she gave up for adoption, culminating in her recent book, HOLE IN MY HEART.