found: Her Playing after dark, 1986:CIP t.p. (Barbara Lazear Ascher) pub. info. (left practising law to write full time; res., N.Y.C.)
found: Her website, Aug. 29, 2022(Barbara Lazear Ascher is a former attorney and the author of five books of non-fiction.)
found: Lapham's Quarterly website, Aug. 29, 2022(Born in Christiansburg, Virginia, in 1946, Barbara Lazear Ascher worked as a lawyer for two years before turning her attention to writing full-time. She has published two essay collections as well as the nonfiction books.)