Last Girl Before Freeway

  About the Author

  Leslie Bennetts is the author of the national bestseller The Feminine Mistake as well as a longtime Vanity Fair writer and former New York Times reporter. At Vanity Fair she wrote many movie star cover stories in addition to articles on subjects ranging from priest pedophilia to U.S. antiterrorism policy, and she was the first woman ever to cover a presidential campaign at The New York Times. Bennetts has also written for many other magazines, including New York, Vogue, More, The Nation, and Glamour. She lives in New York City.

  Also by Leslie Bennetts

  The Feminine Mistake

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  Copyright © 2016 by Leslie Bennetts

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  ISBN 978-0-316-26129-6

  E3-20160929-DA-PC