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Kristine Gasbarre

Biography

Kristine Gasbarre

Kristine Gasbarre is a #1 New York Times bestselling writer and the author of HOW TO LOVE AN AMERICAN MAN: A True Story, as well as the lead editor for The Healthy at Reader’s Digest (print & digital). Selling nearly a million copies combined, her books have been published in multiple languages and featured in People, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Glamour, NPR, HBO, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), and other international media outlets. She lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a home in the Pennsylvania Wilds, and is a passionate volunteer for healthcare equity, voter rights and animal rescue organizations.

Books by Kristine Gasbarre

Show, Don't Tell: A Writer, Her Teacher, and the Power of Sharing Our Stories
by Kristine Gasbarre - Memoir, Nonfiction

For Kristine Gasbarre and generations of young women in her small hometown, Mrs. Korthaus wasn’t just a high school English teacher --- she offered a window into a bigger world. Her focus on her students means that most never learned about her: how before making a career pivot into teaching, she’d marched on Washington with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., attended JFK’s inauguration, and built a career as a business leader when women couldn’t yet open finance accounts in their own names. Now a celebrated writer herself, Kristine reunites with her beloved teacher just as Mrs. Korthaus is newly retired, widowed and diagnosed with advanced breast cancer. As the two women reflect on their intertwined journeys over the past 30 years, Mrs. Korthaus’ enduring insight on self-determination, spirituality and the teaching profession takes on deeper meaning.

How to Love an American Man: A True Story
by Kristine Gasbarre - Nonfiction

When unlucky-in-love Krissy moves home to mourn her grandfather's death and help care for her forgetful grandmother, she takes this final chance to learn timeless lessons about men and marriage from a woman who knows.