Author Journalist
Specialty Subjects : Advice for teen girls.
Fiction...
Book Credits : Girltalk: All the Stuff Your Sister Never Told You (HarperCollins) Ava and Pip and Ava and Taco Cat (Sourcebooks) Speed of Life (Sourcebooks) The Diary of Melanie Martin (Knopf) others
Enter your professional bio here : I'm an advice columnist and novelist who lives in Armonk, New York, and the Upper West Side. I've written 16 books including four Knopf novels for kids, a YA novel, Speed of Life, that the New York Times called ''perceptive, funny, and moving,'' and a memoir, From Here to Maternity. I'm a graduate of School Year Abroad, Yale (Phi Beta Kappa), and Middlebury. I've been a guest on The View, Today, Oprah, and CNN Español -- in Spanish. I ski way better than you would imagine. I love visiting schools and inspiring kids and teaching writing to adults.
Writing Credits : I've written personal essays for all sorts of places from CNN and Publishers Weekly to American Way and American Baby. The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Yale Magazine, HuffPo. I've been ''Dear Carol'' at Girls' Life since 1994. I'm the author of 16 books (fiction, nonfiction) and have taught writing in NYC and Middlebury College in VT. I've been on Oprah and Today and The View...
Skills (Select all that apply) : Books, Essays, Op-Ed, Television
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