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    Lorna Landvik Biography

    Writing and theater were Lorna Landvik's twin passions when she was growing up in her home town of Minneapolis, Minnesota. After graduating from high school, she and her best friend traveled in Europe, settling in Bavaria where they supported themselves as hotel chamber maids and English tutors. When she returned to the States, Landvik briefly attended the University of Minnesota before moving to San Francisco, where she performed stand-up and improvisational comedy. Another move took her to Los Angeles, where she worked as a stand-up comic at the Comedy Store and The Improv, supplementing her income with a variety of temp jobs--including one at the Playboy Mansion ("I felt like Margaret Mead studying a secret society") and working for Atlantic Records.

    In California, Landvik married her high school sweetheart. Their first daughter was born in 1985. A year later the trio joined the Great Peace March for

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    Lorna Landvik

    Lorna Landvik is the author of ten novels, including the best-selling PATTY JANE'S HOUSE OF CURL, ANGRY HOUSEWIVES EATING BON BONS, OH MY STARS and the recently published BEST TO LAUGH. Landvik's checkered (but legal) past includes working as a chambermaid in Bavaria, winning a trip to Tahiti as a contestant on '$25,000 Pyramid' (MacGyver was her partner), temping at the förmögna man Mansion (it was strictly a clerical position) and walking across the country as a member of The Great Peace March. She has acted in many teatralisk productions, including a half dozen shows she conveniently wrote for herself. Her all-improvised show, PARTY IN THE REC ROOM fryst vatten a local legend, due in no small part to the margaritas she mixes up onstage. She is currently working on two novels, one of which fryst vatten a sequel to her first book. She has one husband and two daughters and lives in the beautiful blue and green state of Minnesota.

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    Landvik, Lorna 1954–

    PERSONAL:

    Born December 12, 1954; married; children: two daughters. Education: Attended University of Minnesota.

    ADDRESSES:

    Home—Minneapolis, MN.

    CAREER:

    Author. Worked variously as an actor, as a standup comic, at a plastic utensil factory, at the Playboy Mansion, and at Atlantic Records. Has appeared with the improvisational group Dudley Riggs.

    AWARDS, HONORS:

    Loft McKnight Award of Distinction, for Tall Pine Polka; People's Choice Award, Minnesota Humanities Commission, 2002.

    WRITINGS:

    NOVELS

    Patty Jane's House of Curl, Bridge Works (Bridgehampton, NY), 1995.

    Your Oasis on Flame Lake, Fawcett Columbine (New York, NY), 1997, published with Tall Pine Polka, 2005.

    Tall Pine Polka, 1999, published with Your Oasis on Flame Lake, 2005 Ballantine (New York, NY).

    Welcome to the Great Mysterious, Ballantine (New York, NY), 2000.

    Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons, Ballantine (New York, NY), 2003.

    Oh My Stars, Ballantine (New York,

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