About Ann

 

 

Ann McLaughlin was born in Cambridge, MA and graduated from Radcliffe College. She later earned her Ph D in Literature and Philosophy from American University, where she taught English for eight years. She will lead a workshop on novel writing this spring at the Writer's Center, where she has taught in Bethesda, MD, where she has taught workshops on the novel, the short story and journal writing for many years. She and her husband enjoyed giving a course in London, entitled "The History of London in London."

Ann's most recent short story, "A Chevy Chase Morning," was published in BETHESDA MAGAZINE, Sept/Oct. 2009. She has published scholarly articles on Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, D.H. Lawrence, and King Lear. John Daniel & Co. published all six of her novels: Lightning in July, The Balancing Pole, Sunset at Rosalie, Maiden Voyage, The House on Q Street and Leaving Bayberry House. Her seventh novel will appear this spring and she is working on her eighth.

Ann has been a fellow at Yaddo and at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, where she served on the Fellows Council.

Ann's son, John, is a psychotherapist in San Francisco and her daughter, Ellen, is an actor and playwright in New York. Her husband, Charlie, who edited the Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted and was a professor of History at American University, died in 2005. Ann lives in Chevy Chase, MD.