Sam Lansky (born September 23, 1988)Connelly, Sherryl (January 14, 2016)
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. ''NEW YORK DAILY NEWS''. Retrieved April 6, 2017. is an American journalist, author and editor. He has worked for ''

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Early life

After his parents divorced, he lived with his father in Manhattan and attended the

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. He began using drugs when he was in his early teens. He was forcibly entered into a wilderness rehabilitation in Utah at 17 and became sober when he was 19.

Career

He enrolled in the New School and got a degree in creative writing. He worked as a freelance music critic before joining the editorial staff of ''

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. In 2016, he released his first book ''The Gilded Razor'', a memoir of his troubled teenage years. On writing the book, he said, "I cleaned up my act and turned my life around when I was really young. Even though it’s crazy to be releasing a memoir at 27, having not lived that long, I’m writing about things that happened a full decade ago. It took me a while to feel like I had enough distance to tell the story in the way that I wanted to tell it, but I feel like I reached a point to look back on it, and be removed enough to do it justice." Lansky's first novel, ''Broken People'', was published by Hanover Square Press in 2020.

Personal life

, Lansky lives in Los Angeles.

Books

* ''The Gilded Razor'' (Gallery Books, 2016) * ''Broken People'' (Hanover Square Press, 2020)

References

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Works cited

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