Claire Scovell LaZebnik is an American

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...

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. She is the wife of American

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Rob LaZebnik Rob or ROB may refer to: Places * Rob, Velike Lašče, a settlement in Slovenia * Roberts International Airport (IATA code ROB), in Monrovia, Liberia People * Rob (given name), a given name or nickname, e.g., for Robert(o), Robin/Robyn * Rob (s ...

, with whom she has four children. She is also the sister of

Nell Scovell Helen Vivian "Nell" Scovell is an American television and magazine writer, and producer. She is the creator of the television series ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'', which aired on ABC and The WB from 1996 until 2003 and co-author of the book '' ...

and of children's book writer Alice Scovell Coleman. She was raised in Newton, Mass and attended

Newton South High School Newton South High School is one of two public high schools in the city of Newton, Massachusetts, United States, the other being Newton North. History and student life By the late 1950s, Newton's sole public high school, Newton High, grew to 3,00 ...

. She graduated from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

in 1985. Her

novels A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself ...

include '' Same as It Never Was'', '' Knitting Under the Influence'', and ''The Smart One and the Pretty One''. She has co-written two books on autism with Dr. Lynn Koegel of the Koegel Autism Research Center at the University of California at Santa Barbara. In the first, '' Overcoming Autism'', she writes at the end of each chapter about her son, who was diagnosed with

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at age two and a half. In the second, ''Growing up on the Spectrum'' (2009), the everyday issues of adolescents with autism are addressed.

References

External links

Claire LaZebnik
official website *

family:
Rob LaZebnik-IMDb

Johnny Lazebnik-IMDb
Living people 21st-century American novelists American women novelists Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women writers American women non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers Newton South High School alumni Harvard University alumni {{US-writer-stub