Laurie Colwin (June 14, 1944 – October 24, 1992) was an American writer who wrote five novels, three collections of short stories and two volumes of essays and recipes.
Her work first appeared in The New Yorker[citation needed] and, in 1974, her first collection of short stories was published.
In my kitchen I rely on Edna Lewis, Marcella Hazan, Jane Grigson, Elizabeth David, the numerous contributors to The Charleston Receipts, and Margaret Costa (author of an English book entitled The Four Seasons Cookery Book),"[3] In 2012, Colwin was posthumously inducted into the Cookbook Hall of Fame the James Beard Foundation.
[4] Her published works include Passion and Affect (1974), Shine on, Bright and Dangerous Object (1975), Happy All the Time (1978), The Lone Pilgrim (1981), Wet (1974), Family Happiness (1982), Another Marvelous Thing (1988), Home Cooking (1988), Goodbye without Leaving (1990), More Home Cooking (1993), and A Big Storm Knocked It Over (1993).
In 1983, Colwin married Juris Jurjevics (died 2018), who was a novelist and cofounder of Soho Press.