Life, with Cancer: The Lauren Terrazzano Story - Softcover

Life, with Cancer: The Lauren Terrazzano Story
Frank Terrazzano and Paul Lonardo, foreword by Anna Q uindlen. HCI, $16.95 trade paper (312p) ISBN 978-0-7573-1663-0

Lauren Terrazzano was a journalist for Newsday--part of two Pulitzer-winning reporting teams--who died of lung cancer before she turned 40. Her father chronicles her life as she battled the illness, using excerpts from a series of columns she wrote for Newsday...Terrazzano also lets the reader share in Lauren's many investigative stories (from air crashes to senior abuse) and her strong desire to make a difference. Critical moments include the confirmation of the diagnosis and the drastic treatment: removal of her right lung. Terrazzano's pain comes through and so does Lauren's courage, humor, and realism in the face of her deadly disease.

--Publishers Weekly

--Publishers Weekly "Publishers Weekly "

"People we love sometimes have the power to turn the experience of dying into a breathtaking gift for those left behind. That's what happened for the friends and family of Lauren Terrazzano. A journalist, she chronicled her experience with lung cancer in the pages of Newsday. Now, her father, Frank Terrazzano, and Paul Lonardo have compiled those columns and the reflections and responses of the writer's loved ones. It's a story to truly touch the heart."

--Adele Symonds, Wordpress

Frank Terrazzano is a native of Boston. He worked for more than thirty years in the frozen-food industry and was responsible for purchasing as well as production planning and scheduling for Louise's Home Style Ravioli, the largest manufacturer of Italian pasta products in New England. Among his hobbies that include gardening and cooking, he shared a passion for photography and kite flying with his daughter, Lauren. He and his wife Virginia (Ginny) have been married since November 8, 1964. They reside in southeastern Massachusetts. Lauren was their only child. Paul Lonardo is a talented writer and a publicity dynamo, which has helped to drive strong media attention to his previous book, Caught in the Act. His books include Thrill Killers, A True Story of Innocence and Murder Without Conscience a collaboration with the lead detective who investigated the double homicide chronicled in the book and From the Ashes, Surviving the Station Nightclub Fire, coauthored with Gina Russo, a survivor of the 2003 nightclub fire in Rhode Island that killed 100 people. Paul attended Columbia College, a film school in Hollywood, California, and studied screenwriting. He received a B.A. in English from the University of Rhode Island. Anna Quindlen is a former New York Times and Newsweek opinion columnist, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and a bestselling novelist.