1. Laurence Leamer was born on October 30,1941 and is an American author and journalist.
17 Facts About Laurence Leamer
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Laurence Leamer is regarded as an expert on the Kennedy family and has appeared in numerous media outlets discussing American politics.
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Laurence Leamer has written best-selling biographies of other Americans, including Johnny Carson, the Reagan family, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Laurence Leamer has written a book about Donald Trump's historical resort, Mar-a-Lago.
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Laurence Leamer's book, Capote's Women, was a national bestseller, and was adapted as the second season of Feud starring Naomi Watts and directed by Gus Van Sant.
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Laurence Leamer was born in Chicago and later moved to upstate New York with his family where he attended Vestal Central High School.
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Laurence Leamer attended Antioch College where he spent a year in France, studied at the Universite de Besancon, and worked in a factory.
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When he returned home, Laurence Leamer studied both at the University of Oregon and the Columbia University School of Journalism, where he graduated second in his class in 1969 while being named a Pulitzer International Fellow.
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Laurence Leamer's other Kennedy biography The Kennedy Men was a New York Times bestseller,.
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Laurence Leamer has been interviewed by NBC Nightly News, The New York Times, CNN and NPR to lend his expertise to matters concerning the Kennedys, Ronald Reagan, and American politics.
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Laurence Leamer again served as a consultant during the coverage of former President Ronald Reagan's funeral.
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Laurence Leamer has written a biography of Johnny Carson titled King of the Night, which spent over six weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list.
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In writing his novel Assignment, Laurence Leamer lived in Peru for two years to research the cocaine trade.
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Laurence Leamer again immersed himself in his topic when he moved to Nashville to research the business and lifestyle of country music and its many stars for Three Chords and the Truth.
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Laurence Leamer's 2021 book, Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era, was a national bestseller.
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Laurence Leamer is married to Vesna Obradovic, who assists him with the research for his books.
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Laurence Leamer's other brother, Robert, is an attorney and executive vice president of a Brooklyn-based long-term care health system.