Career
She initially wrote for confessional magazines such as True Story while still working within the legal field Presser later left her practice and began writing romance novels, regional histories, and plays. In 2010 Pressler began a project called The Face to Facebook Project ( also stylized as f2fb) in which she pledged that she would meet and spend time with each of her 325 friends on Facebook during 2011.
Pressler maintained a blog and traveled to various different countries and cities, managing to establish contact with 290 of her Facebook friends.
Presser was born on July 23, 1960 to Justin and Aleta Leiber, who later put her up for adoption before divorcing. Pressler was later adopted by Donald and Judy Patrick of Western Springs and given the name Lynn Melody Patrick.
She left the Patrick family when she was 15 and became a ward of the DuPage County Juvenile Justice agency. Pressler did not finish high school but graduated from the Northwestern University School of Law in 1985.