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Laura Caldwell

Laura Caldwell is a Lawyer-turned-Author-turned-Born-Again-Lawyer. She is a former civil trial attorney, now Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Director of Life After Innocence, and published author of 10 novels and 1 nonfiction book.Laura began her writing career in women’s fiction and soon turned to mystery/thriller. Her first book, Burning the Map was voted as one of the best books the year by BarnesandNoble.com. Booklist declared “Caldwell is one of the most talented and inventive…writers around,” after the release of The Year of Living Famously and The Night I got Lucky. The release of her trilogy in... Read full bio

October News
By Laura Caldwell - November 19, 2009
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October was my month for travel. First, I went to Napa with girlfriends and bled the countryside of wine. Next, I went to the Wisconsin Literary Festival in Madison (Great town, great people, great popcorn). Then it was on to Indy for Bouchercon, the world's largest mystery convention, where I cavorted with authors, readers, agents, publishers and the like. Finally, I find myself in Vegas recovering from a birthday weekend. From here, it's on to Denver for a visit with my friend Amy and to see a Rob Thomas show. After all that, I return to Chicago with nothing planned except a few last IZZY book signings. The first is this Thursday night at the amazing Evanston boutique called Chalk. Hope to see you all there, and if not, I'll be at the Book Stall on November 17th (Event begins 7 p.m. at 811 Elm Street, Winnetka, IL 60093 (847) 446.8880) with the fabulous authors Theresa Schwegel and Libby Hellman. Finally, for those of you following the Life After Innocence Project at Loyola, there is a great article about the love story between on our client, Dean Cage and his fiance, Jewel Mitchell, on CNN.com. The Life After Innocence new web site is due to go live in the coming weeks, and in the meantime, you can follow us on our blog (blogs.luc.edu/afterinnocence/) or on Twitter (@afterinnocence) and you can catch me there too (@LauraACaldwell).