Lara Love Hardin
Literary agent and author
Lara Love Hardin is an American literary agent and author who co-wrote The Sun Does Shine with Anthony Ray Hinton.
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Born in the United States
About Lara Love Hardin
Lara Love Hardin is an American author and prison reform advocate who works as a literary agent. She is president of True Literary. In 2008 she was arrested on identity theft charges. She accepted a plea deal, spent ten months in county jail, and afterwards found a job at a literary agency. Her memoir The Many Lives of Mama Love came out in 2023. It reached the New York Times bestseller list and was chosen for Oprah's Book Club in 2024. As a collaborative writer she has had five New York Times bestsellers. One of them is The Sun Does Shine, the story of Anthony Ray Hinton, who spent 30 years on Alabama's death row though innocent. She won a Christopher Award in 2019, and she co-founded The Gemma Project, which serves incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women.