Lauren Mechling

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Lauren Mechling has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, The New Yorker online, and Vogue, where she writes a regular book column. She’s worked as a crime reporter and metro columnist for The New York Sun, a young adult novelist, and a features editor at The Wall Street Journal. Her debut novel for adults is How Could She. A graduate of Harvard College, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children, and can be found on Twitter @laurenmechling.

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