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Sara Lautman

Biography

Sara Lautman

Sara Lautman is a cartoonist and illustrator. Her drawings have appeared in The New YorkerThe New York TimesPlayboy and The Paris Review, among other publications. She lives in Baltimore, where she teaches on faculty at MICA and feeds the cats.

Sara Lautman

Books by Sara Lautman

written by emily m. danforth, with illustrations by Sara Lautman - Fiction, Gothic

Our story begins in 1902, at the Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it the Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard, where their bodies are later discovered with a copy of Mary’s book splayed beside them. Less than five years later, the school closes its doors forever --- but not before three more people mysteriously die on the property. Over a century later, Brookhants is back in the news when wunderkind writer Merritt Emmons publishes a breakout book celebrating the queer, feminist history surrounding the “haunted and cursed” Gilded Age institution.