Laurie Notaro


Laurie Notaro is an American writer. She authored a number of New York Times Best Seller list|New York Times] best-selling books, including The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club, Excuse Me While I Disappear, and Housebroken.

Career

She co-founded Planet Magazine, and was a senior editor at Tucson Monthly, a monthly city magazine. Notaro was a columnist for ten years at The Arizona Republic. In October 2001, her book The Idiot Girls’ Action Adventure Club was picked up by Random House. She published with Simon & Schuster with Crossing the Horizon and Potty Mouth at the Table. Her latest book, Excuse Me While I Disappear, is published by Little A and is a collection of musings on a Gen X-er becoming an AARP-er. Numerous articles, essays, and novels have followed, and she was a finalist for The Thurber Award for American Humor. She has written for The New York Times, Glamour, Oprah, BARK Magazine, USA Today, Village Voice Media, and BUST.

Personal life

Notaro was raised in Phoenix, Arizona. She graduated from Arizona State University with a degree in journalism. She currently lives in Eugene, Oregon with her husband.

Works

Novels

Essay collections

  • The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life
  • Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood
  • I Love Everybody : True Tales of a Loudmouth Girl
  • We Thought You Would Be Prettier: True Tales of the Dorkiest Girl Alive
  • An Idiot Girl's Christmas: True Tales from the Top of the Naughty List
  • The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death: Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia, and Laser Hair Removal
  • It Looked Different on the Model: Epic Tales of Impending Shame and Infamy
  • The Potty Mouth at the Table
  • Enter Pirates: Vintage Legends 1991-1999
  • Housebroken
  • Predictably Disastrous Results: Vintage Legends Volume II
  • Excuse Me While I Disappear
  • ''I Have A New Complaint''