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Born and raised in Hartford CT, Lolly Winston holds an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College, where she wrote a collection of short stories as her thesis. She is the author of New York Times bestselling novels Good Grief and Happiness Sold Separately, which is being developed as a film. Her short stories have appeared in The Sun, The Southeast Review, The Third Berkshire Anthology, Girls' Night Out and others. She's contributed essays to the anthologies Kiss Tomorrow Hello and Bad Girls.
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Okay, the question on everyone's mind: are you a
widow?
No.
Then why did you decide to write about grief?
My father died when I was 29 and four years later my mother died. The day that
my dad died I went out and bought a bathmat and a new lamp. Grief didn't hit me
for a while. I even found myself resenting the mourners at our house. How could
they accept his death so readily? I found grief like charging something on a
credit card--you pay later, with interest. Months after my father's death I
started breaking down. I remember sitting at my desk at work one day, unable to
pick up my pencil. Grief and depression became disabling. I was single at the
time, and I'd lost the person whom I was closest to. My father and I used to
talk on the phone every Sunday--about politics, basketball, whatever. After he
died I had the overwhelming urge to just call him up. I wanted to tell him that
Johnny Carson went off the air and the Berlin Wall came down. As I started to
come out of my funk, I wanted to write about all of that that--about the messy,
quirky aspects of grief.
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