
Nancy Crochiere
Cognoscenti contributor
Nancy Crochiere is a writer whose debut novel, "Graceland," about a mother-daughter-grandmother road trip from Boston to Memphis, was recently published by Avon/HarperCollins. Prior to trying her hand at fiction, Nancy wrote a humor column about family life titled “The Mother Load” for 13 years, and her essays have appeared in The Boston Globe, Writer’s Digest, and WBUR’s Cognoscenti. She lives north of Boston with her husband and a few houseplants that could use more attention.
Recently published

My first love was a Bug
Though the Beetle was technically my father’s, over the next few years it became the centerpiece of my teenage world, writes Nancy Crochiere. At 15, I fell completely, desperately, in...

The Older I Got, The More I Searched For My Father
Nancy Crochiere was 26 when her father died, and their relationship was a rocky one. I’ll never enjoy a full understanding of my complicated, difficult father, she writes, but I’ve...