Background
Bourret was born in Denver, Colorado to Carole Wedemeyer Bourret and John Lowell Bourret.
Bourret was born in Denver, Colorado to Carole Wedemeyer Bourret and John Lowell Bourret.
She attended schools in Salt Lake City, Kansas City and Houston, and graduated from Spring High School in 1980. She enrolled in Texas Technical University where she graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1984. She graduated from Yale Law School in 1987 and was clerk for the Honorable Patrick East. Higginbotham of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Her best known work is the novel,
She was an associate at the Dallas Office of Baker and Botts and was a partner at Kirkpatrick and Lockhart (KLGates). In school and in her practice, she did pro bono work for child advocacy organizations. She found she was unable to be a full-time child advocate and so also worked in corporate law before she retired to become a writer
From a young age, Bourret wrote about lost children, a recurring theme in her work.
She lived for several years in Santa Fe, then divided her time between Aspen, Colorado and Dallas, Texas. She died of lupus.
was Bourret"s debut novel.
lieutenant is about a woman who discovers a baby at a rest stop and raises the child as her own. Years later, she is forced to confront this secret.
Her work for child advocacy organizations was part of what inspired this book
State Bar of Texas; American Bar Association.