- BIO
Lynn Vannucci's first novel,
Coyote, was published by Bantam New Fiction in 1987. She has
since written three more novels, a weekly newspaper column, non-fiction
articles for various sailing lifestyle publications, romance
fiction (under a pen name), and been included in an anthology
of Italian-American women writers, Voices We Carry. She has been
a guest lecturer at Lock Haven University and Penn Tech (Penn
State University), and written and produced licensing, home instructional,
and documentary videos for various clients such as DC Comics
and Marvel Comics, and adapted Barbara Woodhouse's book No Bad
Dogs for video. She has lived in New York City, on a sailboat
in Annapolis, Maryland, and in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania where
she co-owned and operated a fine dining restaurant, Rocky Point
Lodge, for five years. She currently divides her time between
Northern California and New York City. Her current project is
co-authoring Dr. Alice Ladas's follow-up to her international
bestseller, The G Spot.
- HER STORY
I was woken early by a phone
call from my mother - "Have you written your letters? Have you
made your telephone calls?" It was the 30th anniversary of Roe
v. Wade and my mother did not want me sleeping through or slacking
off on a day that celebrated a right her generation of feminists
had won for all the women and men of America.
I grew up inculcated with awe
for the leaders of the women's movement; I was honored, and a
little intimidated, when I was chosen to work with the founder
of Eve's Garden on her memoirs.
The first time I met Dell was
at a Columbia University performance of Eve Ensler's The Vagina
Monologues. Dell was being honored at the performance by the
student actors, and she had asked me to go along as her guest.
The production was a delight ¡V the young women on stage had the audience cheering, and Dell led the standing ovation at the
end.
Later, walking down Amsterdam
Avenue toward a coffee shop where we'd decided to go for a late-night
snack, Dell and I started talking about the logistics of how
we would work together on the manuscript - I do my best work
in the morning, she is a night owl, that sort of thing - we needed
to figure out how we were going to coordinate our schedules.
I was prepared, of course, to defer on every point but Dell wasn't
having it. She would rise early - once in a while - if that were
what was required. "We'll compromise," she said, "after all...,"
whereupon she broke into a soft-shoe and a chorus of "You Say
To-may-to, I Say To-mah-to," that had passers-by on the Avenue
laughing and sending her applause.
I have been honored, intimidated, and charmed to work with Dell Williams.
