Lisa Wingate, author portrait
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Lisa Wingate

Lisa Wingate is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Before We Were Yours, which has sold more than three million copies and been translated into over forty languages worldwide. The co-author, with Judy Christie, of the nonfiction book Before and After, Wingate is a Goodreads Choice Award winner, an Oklahoma Book Award finalist, and a Southern Book Prize winner. She was named a 2023 Distinguished Alumni of Oklahoma State University. She lives with her husband in Texas and Colorado.
Shelterwood
The Book of Lost Friends
Before and After
Before We Were Yours

Books

Shelterwood
The Book of Lost Friends
Before and After
Before We Were Yours

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