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Laney Katz Becker

Biography

Laney Katz Becker

Laney Katz Becker is an award-winning author and writer. Her debut novel, DEAR STRANGER, DEAREST FRIEND, was a Literary Guild alternate selection, recommended by Library Journal and featured on CBS's "Saturday Early Show," among other media outlets.

Laney is also the author of the nonfiction anthology, THREE TIMES CHAI, a collection of rabbis favorite stories. Her writing career also includes working as an award-winning advertising copywriter, freelance journalist, and, most recently, for more than a decade, as a literary agent.

When she’s not writing, Laney enjoys drawing, sewing, reading, playing tennis, long walks (while listening to podcasts or audiobooks), and playing canasta. A native Ohioan, Laney is a graduate of Northwestern University. Although she lived in Westchester County, NY for most of her adult life, she currently resides on the east coast of South Florida where she lives with her husband and their Havanese. She has two married children and two grandchildren.

Laney Katz Becker

Books by Laney Katz Becker

by Laney Katz Becker - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction

In 1965 America, women can’t have their own bank accounts, credit cards, or sign their own leases; divorce is scandalous and difficult; and abortion is illegal. Every week, a group of suburban housewives meet for their Tuesday canasta game. When prim and proper Lily Berg, a doctor’s wife, discovers she’s pregnant with their second child, she follows her friend Becca’s suggestion and takes in Betsy, a pregnant teen from the local home for unwed mothers. Betsy, who’s never met anyone Jewish before, is to live with the Bergs for six months, help with babysitting and housekeeping, have her own baby, and agree never to contact the family again. But things quickly get complicated. Lily, who has opened her home to the teenager, never planned on opening her heart, yet that’s exactly what happens.