Welcome to my website.

Here you will find links to my four books documenting the history of Napa from its very beginning up until the present. You will find information and links to my groundbreaking biography of Upton Sinclair. I have also completed a children’s book, a memoir in poetry and a collection of my unpublished reviews and articles. I look forward to dialoguing with you about any of these and have corresponded productively with readers of my work.

Lauren Coodley, Historian and Biographer began her career tutoring students for the GED and teaching night school psychology at the local junior college. She attained tenure the same year her son Nils was born; before that, she worked at least two jobs while raising her daughter Caitlin. She invented and taught classes ranging from overcoming math anxiety to children’s literature. Read More