Author

Lauren Collins

3 books, mostly biography, for Penguin Audio and Fourth Estate, 2016–2026

Lauren Collins is an American journalist and author who has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008. She wrote the memoir When in French: Love in a Second Language and the narrative history They Stole a City, which examines Wilmington’s 1898 white-supremacist coup and its legacy. ([penguinrandomhouse.com](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/238792/lauren-collins/))