Gasp!: The subject is a doodle

August 10, 2007

I know it's a review of ballpoint drawings, but if I were the artist, I don't think I'd want that sentence in a review of my work.

Laura Axelrod is a writer and book reviewer. Her plays have been performed in California, New York and Europe.

Her book reviews appear regularly in the Birmingham News and on the Newhouse News Service wire. Her essay on 9/11 was quoted during a lecture at London’s Bartlett School of Architecture in 2004. Other instructional articles have been used by colleges, high schools and writing groups throughout the country. She was recently quoted by Vanity Fair’s James Wolcott on the death of Norman Mailer.

When she was 22 years old, she graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with an MFA in Dramatic Writing. She also received her BFA in Dramatic Writing, and was awarded the John L. Golden Award for Playwright with Most Potential, and the Rod Marriott Senior Playwriting Award that same year.