MARIANNE LEONE ON REDISCOVERING HER JOY – MEMOIR

ANN HOOD is the author of the bestselling novels The Knitting Circle: A Novel (W. W. Norton & Company), The Obituary Writer: A Novel (W. W. Norton & Company), and The Book That Matters Most: A Novel (W. W. Norton & Company), as well as the memoirs Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food (W. W. Norton & Company), Fly Girl: A Memoir (W. W. Norton & Company), and Comfort: A Journey Through Grief (W. W. Norton & Company), which was named one of the top 10 nonfiction books of 2008. Hood has won two Pushcart Prizes, two Best American Food Writing awards, and Best American Travel Writing and Best American Spiritual Writing awards. Her most recent book is The Stolen Child: A Novel (W. W. Norton & Company).

MARIANNE LEONE is an actress, screenwriter, and essayist. Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, Literary Hub, Ploughshares, Post Road Magazine, The Bark Magazine, Coastal Living, Solstice, and elsewhere. She is the author of two memoirs: Jesse: A Mother’s Story (Simon & Schuster) and Ma Speaks Up: And a First-Generation Daughter Talks Back (Beacon Press). Leone had a recurring role on HBO’s The Sopranos as Joanne Moltisanti, mother to Michael Imperioli's Christopher Moltisanti character. She has also appeared in films by David O. Russell, Larry David, John Sayles, Nancy Savoca, and Martin Scorsese. Her latest book is Five-Dog Epiphany: How a Quintet of Badass Bichons Retrieved Our Joy (Gracie Belle).