Lisa Rogak

Lisa Rogak is an American author, primarily of biographies and other nonfiction books. She is also a freelance magazine writer. Barack Obama: In His Own Words, which Rogak edited, hit the New York Times bestseller list. Her biography of Stephen King, Haunted Heart, was nominated for a 2010 Edgar Award for Best Critical / Biographical Work. Rogak grew up in Glen Rock, New Jersey and now lives in New Hampshire. 2Partial bibliography Pretzel Logic: A Novel, Williams Hill Publishing, 1999 Howard Dean: In His Own Words, St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books, 2003 Death Warmed Over: Funeral Food, Rituals, and Customs from Around the World, Ten Speed Press, 2004 Stones and Bones of New England: A Guide to Unusual, Historic, and Otherwise Notable Cemeteries, Globe Pequot, 2004 The Man Behind the Da Vinci Code: An Unauthorized Biography of Dan Brown, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2005 Barack Obama: In His Own Words, PublicAffairs, 2008 A Boy Named Shel: The Life and Times of Shel Silverstein, St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books, 2009 Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words, PublicAffairs, 2009 Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King, St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books, 2010 And Nothing But the Truthiness: The Rise (and further rise) of Stephen Colbert, St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books, 2011 Dogs of War: The Courage, Love, and Loyalty of Military Working Dogs, S