On Loneliness: How to Feel Less Alone in an Isolating World Spiral-Bound | 2022-11-29

Terri Laxton Brooks

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Terri Laxton Brooks spends her whole life feeling --but it's only after divorcing her husband and moving to an entirely new city on her own that she's finally able to confront the trauma of loneliness that's haunted her for years . . . and learn to embrace and heal from it.
Publisher: She Writes Press
Original Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256 pages
ISBN-10: 1647422876
Item Weight: 0.65 lbs
Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.4 inches
Past Praise for the Author:

“A provocative, important, and timely book for all who are willing to admit their lonely feelings and take steps to overcome them.”
—Dr. Wayne Dyer, author of Your Erroneous Zones

“If you read only one book this year, let it be this. It just may change your life.”
—Gloria Vanderbilt, artist, author, heiress, and socialite

“A book I wish I had read in my early years . . . I might have grown up a little sooner had I been able to share the author’s frank insights into the nature of love, sex, and loneliness in their various aspects. I hope youths of all ages—from sixteen to sixty—will read it.”
—Howard Koch, primary screenwriter of Casablanca

“[W]ith rare insight, the book shows us how to accept our loneliness—then, as we stop resisting it, how to use it to our advantage . . .”
—Publisher Blurb (Penguin Classic, 1st ed.)
Terri Laxton Brooks grew up in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, a farm town of one-square-mile surrounded by cornfields. The first in her family to go to college, she majored in journalism and French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1960s. Her first job out of college was as a Metro reporter for the Chicago Tribune. After four years at the Tribune, she moved to New York City, where she became a professor and then chair of the journalism department at NYU for nineteen years. She later served as dean of the Penn State college of communications. The author of three other nonfiction titles-Bittersweet: Surviving and Growing from Loneliness, Women Can Wait: The Pleasures of Motherhood After 30, and Words' Worth: Write Well and Prosper-Terri has also published hundreds of articles in publications including the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, Harper's, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Columbia Journalism Review, and Writer's Digest. She has a wonderful son who serves as a Lieutenant Commander on Destroyers in the U.S. Navy. She currently lives in New York City.