12 Published BooksLaura Cooper Rendina
Laura Cooper Rendina was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, went to the public schools in Massachusetts, and was editor of the Cambridge High School magazine. Having made a series of trips to Europe, Tunis, and the Virgin Islands, she eventually settled down in a beach house on Siesta Key, Sarasota (Florida), in 1946. It was here that she wrote all eight of her children's books, beginning with the 1948 Roommates.
