Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott is a TED speaker who has written 13 quality-verified books.
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.
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What books has Anne Lamott written?
Anne Lamott has written 13 books in the Books Worth Reading catalogue: "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". Each is quality-verified and paired with their TED talk.
What does Anne Lamott write about?
Anne Lamott's books on Books Worth Reading cover Fiction & Literature, Science & Technology, Society & Culture, Arts & Creativity, Philosophy & Religion, Biography & Memoir, Education.
What is Anne Lamott known for?
Anne Lamott's distinctive intellectual contribution lies in her ability to transform personal struggle into universal wisdom through unflinching honesty and generous humor. Drawing from her lived experience as a recovering alcoholic, activist, and spiritual seeker, Lamott has developed a philosophy ...