Lara Love Hardin
AUTHOR

Lara Love Hardin

Witty True Crime Growing Up
Tap the gear icon above to manage new release emails.
LARA LOVE HARDIN is a literary agent, author, prison reform advocate, and president of True Literary. Her memoir, The Many Lives of Mama Love is a 2024 Oprah Book Club pick and a New York Times bestseller. She has an MFA in creative writing and apart from her own book, is also a five-time New York Times bestselling collaborative writer, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Designing Your Life, and 2018 Oprah Book Club pick, The Sun Does Shine, which she coauthored with Anthony Ray Hinton about his 30 years as an innocent man on Alabama’s death row. In 2019, she won a Christopher Award for her work “affirming the highest values of the human spirit,” nominated for an NAACP Image Award, and short-listed for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Lara is also the co-founder of The Gemma Project, a gender-responsive organization serving incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women with integrity and compassion. Love Hardin lives in La Selva Beach, California.
Read more Read less
You're getting a free audiobook


You're getting a free audiobook.

$14.95 per month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.
Try for $0.00

The Many Lives of Mama Love

Most popular
View Details

Featured Article: The Best Black Audiobook Narrators to Listen to Right Now


A skilled performer has the ability to take the written word to new heights, infusing an author’s work with empathy, warmth, and excitement. And representation matters just as much for audio as it does for any visual medium: listeners should feel and hear themselves in art driven by powerful performers and authentic deliveries. We’ve gathered a few of the best Black audiobook narrators in the business and their can't-miss performances.

Featured Article The Best Black Audiobook Narrators to Listen to Right Now

Best Sellers

Product List
  • The Many Lives of Mama Love Audiobook By Lara Love Hardin cover art

    Regular price: $18.74 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $18.74 or 1 credit

    Try for $0.00
  • The Sun Does Shine Audiobook By Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin, Bryan Stevenson - foreword cover art

    Regular price: $20.24 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $20.24 or 1 credit

    Try for $0.00
  • The Sun Does Shine (Young Readers Edition) Audiobook By Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin, Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich c

    Regular price: $14.99 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $14.99 or 1 credit

    Try for $0.00

Are you an author?

Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography.
Visit Amazon Author Central