Writer & Editor

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Frances Lefkowitz writes with grace, wistfulness, melancholy, and strength. The road to self-knowledge is twisted and arduous, but when it goes through a writer as good as Ms. Lefkowitz, the ride is a delight.
--Andrei Codrescu
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To Have Not is a memoir of growing up poor, white, and female in 1970s San Francisco, getting a scholarship to an Ivy League college in New England, and discovering the downside of upward mobility.
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Named a Best Memoir of 2010 by SheKnows.com.
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NOTE: Blame it on supply chain issues, but Amazon seems to only be offering the Kindle or used copies. For a new paperback, please contact Frances directly.