About the Author

Janice Erlbaum is the author of GIRLBOMB: A Halfway Homeless Memoir (Villard, March '06), and HAVE YOU FOUND HER: A Memoir  (Villard, Feb. '08). She was a contributor to BUST magazine from 1994 through 2007. She lives in her native New York City with her domestic partner, Bill Scurry, and their three cats.

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Photos

Me at the group home, 1985

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Yearbook photo of the young Sylvia Plath, 1987

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Rockaway Beach, summer 1987

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Author photo for Girlbomb, taken by Andrew Marks, Washington Square Park, 2005

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Me and Bill, moments after we made it official, September 18, 2005

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Hamming it up at Heeb magazine's storytelling series, Joe's Pub, January 2006

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Me at Barnes & Noble Union Square on the official publication day for Girlbomb, March 7th, 2006. Not pictured: tears of joy.

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Leo helps me make changes to the second draft of Have You Found Her, October, 2006

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Me and the "character" known as "Maria" from Have You Found Her, at the Vanity Fair party for the book, November 2007

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Disney World, December 2007. How happy do I look?

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