About Beverly Donofrio
Beverly Donofrio's best-selling memoir Riding in Cars with Boys has been translated into fifteen languages. It was made into a well-loved motion picture, starring Drew Barrymore and directed by Penny Marshall. Donofrio was a producer.
Donofrio's second memoir, Looking for Mary (or, the Blessed Mother and Me), is about her search for faith through the Virgin Mary. Donofrio went to Virgin Mary apparition sites around the United States and then in Medjugorje, Bosnia, as she revisited her life as a mother wishing with all her heart she'd done a better job. Looking for Mary was chosen for the Barnes and Noble's Discover Series, earned a starred review in Publisher's Weekly, and is a cult classic.Her first children's book, Mary and the Mouse, the Mouse and Mary, illustrated by Barbara McClintock, will be released in September 2007, by Random House.
Thank You, Lucky Stars, a middle-grade book, will be released in January 2008, also by Random House.
Her essays can be found in many anthologies as well as in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Allure, Cosmopolitan, New York Magazine, The Village Voice, O, Marie Clair, and Spirituality & Health.
You can listen to Donofrio's radio essays, aired on National Public Radio at www.soundportraits.org
Beverly Donofrio lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where she is a founder of the San Miguel Workshops www.sanmiguelworkshops.com at which she is a popular teacher of Memoir Writing.
If you'd like to contact Beverly Donofrio directly, email her, bevdono@yahoo.com
Books by Beverly Donofrio
Riding in Cars with Boys
“Riding in Cars with Boys is so much about maintaining independence against all odds, and it's about drifting and making a million mistakes, feeling lost about half the time and its about how truly painful and hard growing up can be--and how ultimately there are a lot of ways to do life right." —Anne Lamott "A classic. Unless you hate to laugh, read it now.” —Phyllis Theroux, Chicago Tribune |
Looking for Mary
“Candid, entertaining, and abundantly enlightening, Looking for Mary delivers a sweet and salty miracle.” —Elle Magazine “Tender and funny … reverent and ribald, harried and hopeful … a witty memoir of a troubled soul grappling with her failings and the deepest mysteries of salvation.” —Denver Sunday Post “An irreverent, laugh-out-loud conversion story … quirky, convincing, and ultimately very moving.” —Ft. Worth Morning Star-Telegram |
Mary and the Mouse, theMouse and Mary
"Mary lived in a big house with a very little mouse. The Mouse lived in a little house inside a very big house, with Mary."
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Thank You, Lucky Stars
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