Lori Nelson Spielman (born April 30, 1961, in Lansing, Michigan) is an American author, mostly known for her Best Seller The Life List, published by Bantam Books/Random House in July 2013 and translated into 27 languages in 30 countries.
[1][2] Spielman was born in 1961, in Lansing, Michigan, the fourth child of a Catholic working-class couple – Franc and Joan Nelson – and the first of them to attend university.
After graduating (BA, Central Michigan University; MA, Michigan State University),[3] she became a speech pathologist and then a homebound teacher, teaching mentally or physically ill students in their homes or at the hospital.
It was in October 2009 that she started the first draft for her first book The Life List; four years later it was published.
[6] As of 2015, having written and published her second novel, Sweet Forgiveness, she has retired from teaching and became a full-time writer.