Leslie Johansen Nack is the author of two award-winning books Fourteen: A Daughter’s Memoir of Adventure, Sailing and Survival, and The Blue Butterfly: A Novel of Marion Davies. Her forthcoming sequel, Nineteen: A Daughter’s Memoir of Reckoning and Recovery, finishes Leslie’s angsty and challenging story with sobriety and hope for the future. She graduated from UCLA with a degree in English Literature and overcame past traumas to raise two children in a healthy, loving home. She is a member of The Authors’ Guild, The Historical Novel Society and the Pacific Northwest Writer’s Assn. She lives outside Seattle with her husband of 35 years.
