Lisa Taddeo

Taddeo was born to Peter Taddeo, an Italian American doctor, and Pia, a fruit stand cashier from Italy. Taddeo is from Short Hills, New Jersey and attended Millburn High School. She first attended New York University but transferred to Rutgers University.[1] Taddeo completed her MFA in fiction at Boston University.[6] Her mother was born in Italy.[7] Her father died in a car accident.[8] She married Jackson Waite in 2014 and now lives in Litchfield County, Connecticut, with their daughter.[9][1] She previously lived in West Tisbury, Massachusetts, on Martha's Vineyard.[10][11]

Taddeo's work has appeared in The Best American Political Writing and The Best American Sports Writing anthologies.[12][13] Taddeo was an associate editor at Golf Magazine when David Granger assigned her first piece for Esquire, "The Last Days of Heath Ledger",[14] after reading her unpublished novel.[15] In 2015 The Washington Post named her New York Magazine piece, "Rachel Uchitel is Not A Madam",[16] one of their top five long reads that stand the test of time.[17] In 2013 she appeared in Esquire Network's 80th Anniversary special.[18] She was awarded the William Holodnok Fiction Prize and the Florence Engel Randall Award in fiction.[19]

Her book Three Women was released in July 2019 by Simon and Schuster.[20][21] In June 2020 it won the narrative non-fiction book of the year at the British Book Awards.[22]

• Three Women (2019)