Eight Hundred Grapes (Dave) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—July 18, 1977
• Raised—Scarsdale, New York, USA
• Education—B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.F.A., University of Virginia
• Awards—Association of Writers and Writing Programs Intro Award
• Currently—lives in Los Angeles, California


Laura Dave is an American author of several novels, including London Is The Best City In America (2006), The Divorce Party (2008), The First Husband (2011), and Eight Hundred Grapes (2015). She most often writes about relationships, family, infidelity, and marriage.

Dave, whose interest in writing began in elementary school, grew up in Scarsdale, New York. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999 with a B.A. in English and from the University of Virginia with an M.F.A. in creative writing. She was a Henry Hoyns Fellow and a recipient of the Tennessee Williams Scholarship. She received several awards for her writing including the AWP Intro Award in Short Fiction.

After graduate school, Dave worked as a freelance journalist for ESPN.

In addition to her novels, Dave's short fiction and essays have been published in the New York Times, New York Observer, ESPN, Redbook, and Huffington Post. She has appeared on CBS's The Early Show, Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends and NPR's All Things Considered. In 2008, Cosmopolitan named her a "Fun and Fearless Phenom of the Year.

She lives with her screenwriter husband, Josh Singer, in Los Angeles, California. (Adapted from Wikipedia. Retrieved 9/3/2015.)