Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem - Laurie Notaro

Notaro, Laurie: - Laurie Notaro is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the humor memoirs The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club , Autobiography of a Fat Bride , I Love Everybody , The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death , a finalist for the Thurber Prize, and Housebroken , among others. She is also the author of three works of fiction, including the historical novel Crossing the Horizon . Born in Brooklyn, New York, she then spent the remainder of her formative years in Phoenix, Arizona, where she created something of a checkered past. Laurie now resides in Eugene, Oregon, has a cute dog and a nice husband, and misses Mexican food like it was her youth.