Lisa Scottoline is a #1 bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of forty legal, domestic, psychological, and historical thrillers. She has a blockbuster career, having written bestselling books for almost forty years, including her new psychological thriller, This Changes Everything. She has more than 30 million copies of her books in print and is published in over 35 countries. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, and she graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She is a former lawyer and lives on a Pennsylvania farm with an array of disobedient pets. Â
Scottoline is an entertaining, witty, and much-sought-after speaker at library, community, charitable, and corporate events. Her speeches are always lively as well as enlightening. Scottoline loves to entertain an audience and connects with them quickly and warmly. She can speak on a variety of topics and will shape her speech to fit an audience, mood, and interests.
She was honored with a ThrillerMaster Award by International Thriller Writers, and she currently serves as President of Mystery Writers of America, for a record three terms. She is also a humorist, particularly writing from female perspective, and has been often compared to the late great Erma Bombeck. She and her daughter, author Francesca Serritella, wrote a Sunday humor column entitled “Chick Wit” for the Philadelphia Inquirer, for fifteen years. They also co-authored a series of funny memoirs, with titles like Why My Third Husband Will be a Dog and Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat?
Scottoline’s reviews of popular fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Philadelphia Inquirer. In addition, many of her books have an option for television and film. She is a major library supporter and fundraiser for libraries and other causes.
