She graduated from Greensburg Central Catholic High School in 2000 and attended American University in Washington, D.C., where she studied political science.
She earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin.
[4] It is a fictionalized account of the writing and CIA's clandestine distribution of Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak during the Cold War.
[5] The Los Angeles Review of Books compared it to classic Russian literature: “Lara Prescott’s debut follows in the footsteps of classic Russian novels by being an epic love story that is both brilliant and bleak, one that is wound into the fabric of tragic, true history…I can’t stop thinking about this book.
"[8] British author Anna Pasternak sued Prescott in 2019 claiming infringement in her book, Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago.