
Beth Raymer is the author of Lay the Favorite: A Memoir of Gambling (Spiegel & Grau, 2010). The film adaptation of Lay the Favorite, starring Rebecca Hall, Bruce Willis, and Catherine Zeta-Jones, premiered at the 2012 Sundance festival and will have its theatrical release this fall. Raymer has written for The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine. She is currently working on a play and a coming-of-age novel, Sweetheart Deals, which will be published by Spiegel & Grau in 2013.
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