Beverly D'Onofrio

Beverly Donofrio (born c.1950) is an author most noted for writing Riding in Cars with Boys, her autobiography. 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, O: 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...