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

The author, age 9, dressed as Cousin It for Halloween, in an earlier VW Beetle than the bright yellow one her father would bring home when she was 15. (Courtesy Nancy Crochiere)

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...

Cognoscenti

Jun 1, 2023

The author as an infant with her family, 1958. (Courtesy)

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...

Cognoscenti

Jun 17, 2021