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Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

Biography

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts fellow, an award given for her work on THE FACT OF A BODY. She has received a Rona Jaffe Award and fellowships to the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. Her essays appear in the New York Times, Oxford American and the anthology WAVEFORM: Twenty-first Century Essays by Women. She lives in Boston, where she teaches at Grub Street and in the graduate public policy program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

Books by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich - Memoir, Nonfiction, True Crime

Before Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, she thinks her position is clear. The child of two lawyers, she is staunchly anti-death penalty. But the moment convicted murderer Ricky Langley’s face flashes on the screen as she reviews old tapes, she is overcome with the feeling of wanting him to die. Shocked by her reaction, she digs deeper and deeper into the case. As Alexandria pores over the facts of the murder, she finds herself thrust into the complicated narrative of Ricky’s childhood. And by examining the details of Ricky’s case, she is forced to face her own story, to unearth long-buried family secrets, and reckon with a past that colors her view of Ricky's crime.