Lisa Wingate

I want to create books that are not only entertaining, but life affirming. I think we are all called to add something good to the world, to inspire and uplift, to add our colors to the canvas. I have met so many people who have wonderful ways of doing that. I admire them. I want to be like them. I love to write about them. Stories can change the world.
Lisa Wingate is a former journalist, inspirational speaker, and New York Times Bestselling Author of over thirty novels. Her work has won or been nominated for many awards, including the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize, the Oklahoma Book Award, the Utah Library Award, 
The Carol Award, the Christy Award, and the RT Book Lovers Reviewer’s Choice Award.

 Booklist..... summed up her work by saying..... 
“Lisa Wingate is, quite simply, a master storyteller." Lisa believes that stories can change the world.











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