Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott is a TED speaker who has written 13 quality-verified books, each paired here with their TED talk.

Anne Lamott hooks into our common experience and guides us to an understanding infused with openness. An activist, former alcoholic and Sunday School teacher, Lamott uses humor to weave through loss, parenthood, faith and the cancer diagnosis given to her best friend, in beloved books like Bird by Bird and Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers. She says, "Hope begins in the dark ... if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up." Her next book, Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy, was released in April 2017.

• Blue shoe
• Hard laughter
• Small Victories
• Rosie
• Bird by Bird
• Imperfect birds
• Almost everything
• Dusk Night Dawn
• Some Assembly Required
• Grace (Eventually)
• Operating instructions
• Crooked Little Heart
• Traveling Mercies Signed Editi