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Laura Pedersen is an author, humorist, and playwright. She was also the youngest person at age 20 to have a seat on the American Stock Exchange, while earning a finance degree at New York University's Stern School of Business. She writes for the New York Times and is the author of Play Money, Beginner's Luck (chosen as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection), Planes Trains, and Auto-Rickshaws, Buffalo Gal and Buffalo Unbound.
The prolific author and playwright Laura Pedersen parcels her stream of consciousness into wily and witty essays in Life in New York: How I Learned to Love Squeegee Men, Token Suckers, Trash Twisters and Subway Sharks. --The New York Times Reviews for Buffalo Gal: A Memoir: Buffalo Gal: A Memoir, by Laura Pedersen, offers a humorous look at growing up in upstate New York during the 1970s. --Publishers Weekly Above all, this book is laugh out loud funny. Pedersen infuses the book with humor and a wonderful take on the world in which she grew up. Her excellence in writing allows her to infuse deep humor without slapstick and without taking away from or demeaning a life, a place, and a time. --Front Street Reviews Honorable Mention, Memoir category - Eric Hoffer Awards (2009) With a title like this, how can you possibly resist picking up the book! New York scares this country girl, so I always love to read about it - to me it's like looking at the wild lands of some foreign country in National Geo! I love the stories! --Dew on the Kudzu blog
