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  • Bibliography:
    8 Books
  • First Book:
    October 2001
  • Latest Book:
    July 2024
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Book List in Order: 8 titles



  • Winner of the PEN USA Award for Fiction. “An admirable, steely-eyed collection of stories and vignettes featuring a family of ranchers.” -- Publishers Weekly   On Hell’s Bottom Ranch, a section of land below the Front Range, there are wome...



  • A young woman who offers to raise her teenage sister’s baby gets more than she bargained for in “a moving story about love, duty, and family” (Publishers Weekly).A supermarket clerk in a small dusty Colorado town, twenty-two-year-old Libby is f...



  • Laura Pritchett is an award"winning author who has quickly become one of the west's defining literary voices. We first met hardscrabble ranchers Renny and Ben Cross in Laura's debut collection, and now in Stars Go Blue, they are estranged, elderly ...



  • Ten years ago, Tess Cross left her newborn daughter with her sister and hightailed it out of what she called NoWhere, Colorado. Now she returns to the eastern plains of Colorado, full of raw rage at herself and at the universe, yearning for the life ...



  • Ten years ago, Tess Cross left her newborn daughter with her sister and hightailed it out of what she called NoWhere, Colorado. Now she returns to the eastern plains of Colorado, full of raw rage at herself and at the universe, yearning for the life ...



  • Winner of the 2018 Colorado Book Award, "Pritchett writes with an evident love for the mountains and the people that call them home (Westword).The residents of Blue Moon Mountain form a tight"knit community of those living off the land, stunned by ...



  • "An immersive story of a changing landscape, innovatively told." -- KIRKUSWhen a wildfire bears down on a mountain community, residents are forced to gather for safety -- resulting in a tangle of love and lust that pulls people from their isolation, ...



  • Newly widowed and unemployed, a woman in her mid-fifties sets off on a journey of trespassing and adventure through the American West and beyond in this witty, thought-provoking novel from the PEN USA Award"winning writer.Becoming invisible is pain...




Award-Winning Books by Laura Pritchett

Hell's Bottom, Colorado
2002 PEN Literary Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Laura Pritchett has published 8 books.

The next book by Laura Pritchett, Three Keys, will be published in July 2024.

The first book by Laura Pritchett, Hell's Bottom, Colorado, was published in October 2001.

No. Laura Pritchett does not write books in series.