Lisa Jensen's Books
Jul.03.2009
A swashbuckler set in the West Indies of the early 19th Century DIE HEIMLICHE PIRATIN is a love story, a coming-of-age adventure and an eccentric comedy of manners about a woman who runs with the pirates to free herself from the conventional "rules" of gender, race and class. Tory Lightfoot, an orphan of mixed white and Mohawk blood, flees the stifling gentility of...
Aug.15.2001
A swashbuckler set in the West Indies of the early 19th Century THE WITCH FROM THE SEA is a love story, a coming-of-age adventure and an eccentric comedy of manners about a woman who runs with the pirates to free herself from the conventional "rules" of gender, race and class. Tory Lightfoot, an orphan of mixed white and Mohawk blood, flees the stifling gentility of 1823 Boston for...
About Lisa
I grew up in Hermosa Beach, CA, and graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a decorative, but not especially useful B.A. in Aesthetic Studies. I launched my writing career as a film critic for the Santa Cruz alternative weekly, Good Times, a position I've held...
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Lisa’s Favorite Books
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon. The entire Harry Potter ouvre (but especially The Prisoner of Azkaban) by J. K. Rowling....