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Award-winning author and artist and Oregon native, LeslieAnn Butler, has been involved in art, writing and other creative endeavors since childhood. She graduated from the University of Oregon with a bachelor’s degree in Theater Arts and a minor in Fine Arts. LeslieAnn has written and published poetry, articles and two books.  Her first book, The Dream Road, won the National Visionary Award in 1998. The second book, If Your Hair Falls Out, Keep Dancing! will be released in August of 2008.

Just out of college, she worked as a model in San Francisco, then began an career as a copywriter at one of the largest advertising agencies in the world, Ketchum, McCleod and Grove. It was at this point in time that she was diagnosed with Alopecia Areata.

LeslieAnn traveled throughout the United States and Europe, living on the East Coast for several years, but headed home to Oregon to complete her career in advertising as a creative director for a Portland agency, winning local, regional and national awards for her work.

 

If Your Hair Falls Out, Keep Dancing!

LeslieAnn Butler
Nightengale Press (2008)
ISBN 9781933449586
Reviewed by Olivera Baumgartner-Jackson for Reader Views (6/08)


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Synopsis: LeslieAnn Butler, artist, writer and former model, has experienced alopecia areata for thirty years. In her book, If Your Hair Falls Out, Keep Dancing!, she offers stories and struggles of her own and those of other women who have had alopecia in all its forms. Her experience, research and interviews have resulted in a book written in the voice of a good friend who wants to, and can, help.

If Your Hair Falls Out, Keep Dancing! is filled with tips on how to tell your family and friends, available treatments, doctors, makeup, wigs, and perhaps most important, attitude.

If Your Hair Falls Out, Keep Dancing! is illustrated with LeslieAnn's colorful expressionist paintings that reflect her passion, humor and zest for life. Perhaps you ll be inspired, find a pearl of wisdom, and crack a smile. For sure, you ll find that you can enjoy and celebrate your life with alopecia areata, go after your dreams, and know you re not alone.

If Your Hair Falls Out, Keep Dancing! is not only for women with alopecia, but for their families and friends who would like a greater understanding of the condition, as well as women who are facing other types of life challenges.