After graduating from the Sorbonne, Lapierre studied at the American Film Institute and then enrolled at the University of Southern California, where she learned storytelling.
[1][2] A review by Autumn Stephens in the San Francisco Chronicle describes Fanny Stevenson: A Romance of Destiny as a "provocative, highly readable biography.
"[3] Brenda Maddox writes in a review of Fanny Stevenson for The Washington Post that Lapierre "offers dialogue as well as smells, inner thoughts, even hand gestures, in such minute detail that even her subjects could not verify them were they to rise from the grave for interviews.
""[5] A review by Publishers Weekly states, "Though some readers may demur at the highly novelistic approach and effusive prose, Lapierre provides ballast by creating dialogue from lines taken from the couple's letters and Robert's essays.
"[10] A Publishers Weekly review states, "Lapierre evokes Moura’s appeal by moving between the impressions she makes on others, including Gorky and H.G.