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 is currently leading a workshop on revision at the Writer's Center 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 has published short stories and reviews as well as scholarly articles on Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, D.H. Lawrence, and King Lear. John Daniel & Co. published all five of her novels: Lightning in July, The Balancing Pole, Sunset at Rosalie, Maiden Voyage and The House on Q Street. She has sent off her sixth novel and is working on her seventh.

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.