Nancy Lemann

Nancy Elise Lemann is an American novelist and nonfiction writer. Her work is associated with New Orleans and Southern literature, and often features digressive narration, comic repetition, social decay and characters drawn from the upper-class and bohemian circles of Louisiana. She is best known for her debut novel, Lives of the Saints, first published in 1985, and for The Ritz of the Bayou, a nonfiction account of the federal trial of Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards.