Namey, Laura Taylor: - Laura Taylor Namey is the New York Times bestselling author of A Cuban Girls Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, a Reese Witherspoon YA Book Club pick, as well as A British Girls Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak, When We Were Them, and The Library of Lost Things. A proud Cuban American, she can be found hunting for vintage treasures and wishing she was in London or Paris. She lives in San Diego with her husband and two children.