Finding Her Voice Again: The Class of '74 with Laura Van Wormer
What do you do when a drunk driver takes away the voice you built an entire career on, and ten years later, you find a way to use it again?
Laura Van Wormer is a longtime novelist whose 1988 debut, Riverside Drive, was a bestseller, followed by 13 more novels with major publishing houses. In 2015, a head-on collision left her with a crushed collarbone, 16 broken ribs, and what she calls her "ventilator voice." Nearly unable to write another novel for years, she found her way back through an unexpected medium: a serialized fiction podcast called The Class of '74.
In this episode, Laura shares…
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