Martha Lufkin

Martha Lufkin has published humor columns for two decades in Boston area newspapers including The Boston Globe, The Lincoln Journal, and The Lexington Minuteman, and won a first prize award for humor from the New England Press Association. Her other tales -- mysteries poking tantalizing fun at estate and art lawyers -- have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. Since 1997, Martha has been a legal correspondent for The Art Newspaper, an influential international monthly, covering Nazi-looted art, stolen antiquities, and other art law topics. An award-winning speaker, she has appeared at numerous venues and on National Public Radio, speaking on Nazi-looted art and art law. She is a lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts. Martha’s book of newspaper humor columns, The Lady in the Hat, was published in 2011.