On Wild Card, well-known guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Author Anne Lamott ...

Anne Lamott says she felt drawn to writing almost like it was a call to become a monk. She has also felt called to teach ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anne Lamott and Neal Allen have co-authored "Good Writing," the companion volume to Lamott's "Bird By Bird." (Christie Hemm Klok / ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Writer Anne Lamott during a book signing in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2007. Lamott is the author of several novels and ...

It takes Anne Lamott a few words to say what the rest of us spend our lives searching to express. Perhaps that's why her books — which she's been publishing since the 1970s — are received as wisdom ...

Back in 1993, author Anne Lamott, then a 35-year-old single mom, wrote a funny and unflinching memoir of her son Sam's first year. Called "Operating Instructions," the book became a bestseller and set ...

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Author Anne Lamott may shatter many people’s stereotypes about what a successful spiritual writer is like. She’s a dreadlock-wearing, politically liberal, born-again Christian ...

Sam Lamott, the baby star of best-selling author Anne Lamott’s classic memoir, “Operating Instructions,” was finally grown up and safely ensconced at art school in San Francisco. Before Sam was born ...

Anne Lamott, the Marin author known for her narrative nonfiction books on life and faith and novels about people trying to navigate their respective journeys, is selling her Fairfax home for a listing ...

A version of this article also appeared in the It’s Not Just You newsletter. Sign up here to get a new essay from Susanna Schrobsdorff every weekend. This year has tested my lack of faith. I was ...

Anne Lamott and Neal Allen have co-authored "Good Writing," the companion volume to Lamott's "Bird By Bird." (Christie Hemm Klok / For The Times) They’re so darn cute together, these two. Neal Allen, ...