Lauren John

Lauren John is a librarian and book group leader who has led book groups in public and private libraries, living rooms, senior centers, and synagogues. She has been leading the monthly Menlo Park Public Library book group for five years. Her work there, as well as an earlier book group course for Infopeople, inspired her to write the book Running Book Discussion Groups: A How to Do It Manual (Neal Schuman 2006). Lauren also developed and teaches the class, Book Group Therapy for the San Francisco One Book One City Festival. When she is not leading book groups, Lauren is the librarian at San Francisco's Town and Country Club—a private women's club founded in 1893. She is also the in-house librarian for Book Group Expo—a yearly festival for book group members.