4 February 2019
Leslie Langtry's writing career began in the second grade, when she wrote a story about a family camping trip gone wrong. When the kids in her class laughed, she says she was "hooked." In college, she focused on political science, Soviet studies, and art administration. But her love for writing-and making readers laugh-never left her. As she neared age 40, she joined a writer's group and wrote three books, which she says she subsequently "buried in the backyard after a ritual burning, so no one would ever, ever read them."