If I Knew Then
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Remorse, Rehabilitation, Redemption, and the Re-Creation of a Life
We remember Amy Fisher as the forever femme fatale of tabloid journalism - the perennial sixteen-year-old "Long Island Lolita" who shot her lover's wife. But for Amy herself, life hasn't stood still in the last decade and a half. She has grown into a contemplative and confident 30-year-old woman, an award-winning newspaper columnist, and a devoted wife and mother. "I am the person I always should have been," says Amy, "except for a brief but total, unfathomable lapse of judgment in my youth." In this deeply personal account, Amy takes us beyond the scandal and into her real life. She finally addresses the many highly sensationalized, often completely false depictions of who she was, what she did, and who she is now; she takes full responsibility for her impulsive, terrible crime; she shares her thoughts on keeping handguns away from minors and ending domestic violence and the abuse of women in prison; and she writes candidly about her childhood, her relationship with Joey Buttafuoco, the shooting, her years in prison, parole, and how she has pieced her life back together again. Hers is both a chillingly cautionary tale and a truly inspirational story about beginning again and making a life matter.
About the Author
In 1992 Amy Fisher was thrust into the limelight as the sixteen-year-old girl suddenly known around the world as the ?Long Island Lolita? after she shot her thiry-six-year-old boyfriend?s wife. She has been the subject of three movies and several books, but now, at thirty years old, she is telling her own story for the first time in If I Knew Then?. In an inspirational account of rehabilitation and redemption, Amy?s life has made a dramatic turnaround. She has become an award-winning columnist for the Long Island Press, an artist-entrepreneur, a devoted wife and mother, and an advocate for several social causes. She and co-author Robbie Woliver are currently working on a new non-fiction true-crime book. Robbie Woliver, co-author of If I Knew Then? is the editor-in-chief of the Long Island Press, and has edited Amy Fisher?s column since it began in June 2002. An award-winning journalist and editor, he has been a columnist for Newsday, senior editor at the Long Island Voice, and a writer for The New York Times. He has also written for many other publications and media outlets, including the Village Voice, Rolling Stone, CBS Market Watch, Salon, Bank Rate, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He is the founder of the National Music Awards, owner of the legendary music venue Folk City, and the author of Wyoming & March, Bringing It All Back Home, Hoot!, and a new novel, Creation.