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Lisa Unger is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of fourteen novels, including Darkness, My Old Friend, Fragile, Die For You, Black Out, Sliver of Truth, Beautiful Lies, also her latest thriller Ink and Bone.
Her books are published in twenty-six languages worldwide, have sold millions of copies and have been named "Best of the Year" or top picks by the Today show, Good Morning America, Walmart Book Club, Target, Harper's Bazaar, Family Circle, Good Housekeeping, Publishers Weekly, Washington Life, New York Daily News, Entertainment Weekly, Sun Sentinel, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Suspense Magazine, Amazon and Independent Booksellers.
She has been a finalist in or winner of numerous literary awards including the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Book, International Thriller Writers Award for Best Novel, Silver Falchion Award for Best Book, Florida Book Award, France's Prix Polar International Best Book and Bookspan's International Book of the Month. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR and Travel+Leisure Magazine.
Lisa Unger currently lives in Tampa Bay, Florida with her husband, daughter and labradoodle.
Lisa Unger's website
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What elements of the story
come from your own experience living in New York City?
For me and for most fiction writers, I think, it is true to say that
everything and nothing in my work is autobiographical. As much as the plot, the
events, and the characters are purely from my imagination, of course all of
these things are an amalgamation of my experiences, relationships, observations,
literary influences, etc.
In the case of Beautiful Lies, however, much of the setting has
been mined from my own history. The apartment where Ridley lives is an exact
recall of my first New York City apartment in the East Village. She stands where
I stood many a morning trying to hail a cab when she first spots Justin Wheeler.
Places like Five Roses and Veniero's are real places in that neighborhood and
places that I have loved. The streets she walks, the subways and taxis are all
from my direct experience. I have had a love affair with the city most of my
life. But it wasn't until after I'd left there, that all the beauty of it came
back to me. I know that place better than I know any other. For me it lives and
breathes; I can hear it and smell it and feel its rhythm when I write about it.
Is Ridley like you (or...
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