Beverly Donofrio is an author most noted for writing Riding in Cars with Boys, an autobiographical account of her life. The book was made into a movie with the same title and starred Drew Barrymore as Donofrio. She also is a prolific essayist, having published work in numerous anthologies, in the New York Times, Washington Post Sunday Magazine, The Village Voice, and in such magazines as Allure, Cosmopolitan, The Oprah Magazine, and Marie Claire.

Her second memoir, Looking for Mary, or the Blessed Mother and Me, is about the Virgin Mary, faith and her own life as a mother. Her first children's book was released by Random House in 2007.

Donofrio's father is of Sicilian descent and her mother is an Italian-American. She lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where she founded and currently directs the San Miguel Workshops.

Donofrio studied literature at Wesleyan University and obtained a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University. She has taught writing at New York University and the University of Wyoming, among other institutions.

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