Jennifer Lauck Biography
Jennifer Lauck is an American fiction and nonfiction writer, essayist, lecturer, and writing instructor. Lauck’s journalism career took her to Spokane, Washington, where she worked for KXLY-TV, followed by Portland, Oregon, where she worked as a news and special reports producer for KATU-TV.
Jennifer Lauck Age
Lauck was born on 15 December 1960, in Reno, Nevada, United States of America. She is 60 years old as of December 2023.
Jennifer Lauck Education
Lauck has a BA in journalism from Montana State University and MFA in creative writing from Pacific Lutheran University.
Jennifer Lauck Family
Lauck was born in Reno, Nevada, but spent her early years with her adoptive family in both Nevada and California. After her mother died in 1971, Lauck lived with her adopted father and brother until her father died in 1973. At the time, Lauck was separated from her adoptive brother and raised in Nevada and Washington state before being adopted again by her adoptive family’s paternal side.
Jennifer Lauck Career
Lauck spent her adult life in Washington, Montana, and Oregon, where she studied journalism at Montana State University before working as a reporter for the Montana Television Network. Lauck’s journalism career took her to Spokane, Washington, where she worked for KXLY-TV, followed by Portland, Oregon, where she worked as a news and special reports producer for KATU-TV. Her investigative journalism stories aired on CNN and ABC Nightly News. She was nominated for multiple Society of Journalists awards and won Best News Story of the Year for her coverage of an abduction case in Washington State. Lauck travels to speak on a variety of topics including motherhood, empowerment of women, writing, adoption, foster care, abandonment, early loss, Tibetan Buddhism, and mediation.
Lauck felt ill-equipped to respond skillfully to the number of letters received in support of her writing, as well as the sharing of personal tragedies in those fan letters, and turned to study of Tibetan Buddhism under American masters Anne Klein, Harvey Aronson, Joanna Macy, and Lama Tsultrim Allione, as well as Tibetan master Adzom Rinpoche. While studying Buddhist theory and practicing meditation, Lauck expanded her writing to address bigger spiritual issues, publishing essays in Lion’s Roar and Buddha Dharma. In 2007, Lauck further investigated her life and uncovered the influence of her adoption through investigations with adoption experts. Nancy Verrier, author of The Primal Wound and Coming Home to Self, and Betty Jean Lifton, author of several books.
Jennifer Lauck Books- Author
Lauck is an American author of four books, including the New York Times bestseller Blackbird. Her work has been published in the United States and around the world and translated into other languages. Much of her notoriety grew after she appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show in 2000, where Winfrey held the book up to her audience and said, “This should have been a book of the month book. “Read it now.” Blackbird made its debut on The New York Times Best Seller list in November 2000, before going off and returning in January 2001.
Jennifer Lauck Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.