Non-Fiction
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Paper Revolutionaries | 1972 | Buy |
| Playing for keeps | 1977 | Buy |
| Ascent | 1982 | Buy |
| Make-Believe | 1983 | Buy |
| As Time Goes By | 1986 | Buy |
| My years with Harpur College and SUNY-Binghamton’s Economics Department and Social Sciences Division | 1986 | Buy |
| King of the Night | 1989 | Buy |
| The Kennedy Women | 1994 | Buy |
| Three Chords and the Truth | 1997 | Buy |
| The Kennedy Men | 2001 | Buy |
| Sons of Camelot | 2004 | Buy |
| Fantastic | 2005 | Buy |
| Madness Under the Royal Palms | 2009 | Buy |
| The Price of Justice | 2013 | Buy |
| Rose | 2016 | Buy |
| The Lynching | 2016 | Buy |
| Mar-A-Lago | 2019 | Buy |
| Capote’s Women | 2021 | Buy |
| Hitchcock’s Blondes | 2023 | Buy |
| Warhol’s Muses | 2025 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Assignment | 1981 | Buy |
| The President’s Butler | 2016 | Buy |
Laurence Leamer has spent more than fifty years writing about the people and institutions that shape American life. He started his career as a journalist, and that reporting instinct shows up in all his books. Whether he is writing about the Kennedy dynasty, the social scene in Palm Beach, or the inner workings of Hollywood, Leamer builds his narratives from interviews, archives, and on-the-ground research.
His Kennedy trilogy stands as a thorough portrait of America’s most famous political family, tracing the women, the men, and the next generation across three separate volumes. In more recent years, he has turned his attention to cultural biography with books like Capote’s Women, Hitchcock’s Blondes, and Warhol’s Muses, each examining the relationships between famous creators and the people in their orbits. He has also written about country music (Three Chords and the Truth), professional wrestling (Fantastic), and the history of Mar-a-Lago.