Grace Lichtenstein
My Travel ColumnsMy BlogsMy BooksMUSICAL GUMBO By Grace Lichtenstein and Laura Dankner "A playfully written guide to the history and diversity of Crescent City musical styles." -- Publishers Weekly "A casual yet palatable guide to the music of New Orleans that serves up its spicy musical and historical matter in high style." -- Kirkus Reviews  |
About the author I am currently working on several ghost-writing projects, and I am also the Senior Adventures columnist in the Outdoors & Adventure section of the popular site Suite101.com. Most recently, I worked with personal finance expert Douglas Andrew on his New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Last Chance Millionaire, published in June 2007 by Warner Business Books, as well as Millionaire By Thirty by Douglas, Emron and Aaron Andrew, published in April 2008. For the past several years, I have assisted a renowned psychiatrist in writing five books for executives of hedge funds. The most recent is Hedge Fund Leadership (Wiley, 2008). For more than 12 years, starting at the dawn of the World Wide Web as we know it, I have been an online editor and writer for Livestrong.com (the Lance Armstrong Foundation's site), Healthscout.com, Myprimetime.com, Mountain News Industry Report, Excite.com and CNNfn.com. In addition, I have done speeches, research and rewriting for individuals, companies and colleges. My journalism and book reviews appear frequently in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post. ONLINE EXPERIENCE In 2008, I became a contributing writer for Livestrong.com, the Lance Armstrong Foundation's daily health, fitness and lifestyle destination site. As an editor at Mountain News 2002-2006, I wrote and edited an e-mail newsletter for top resort and travel officials. I also have contributed to the popular ski/ From 1998-2001 I did online editing for Healthscout, the Web service that supplied daily health news to The New York Times syndicate, USA Today and hundreds of other affiliates. I was a contributing writer for the baby-boomer site Myprimetime.com, the Dow Jones Business Directory, BusinessWeek.com, Wired News and Gorp.com. From 1995 to 1997 I was an editor-writer for Excite. I wrote critiques of thousands of Web sites for its database, created Excite Tours, and managed special projects. In addition, I was a founder and executive editor of the independent Web site Sports For Women, a prime source of news about female athletes, teams and fitness. Other online credits: CNNfn.com, MSNBC.com, America Online's The Book Report, and the magazine Yahoo! Internet Life. NEWSPAPER CAREER For more than a decade I was a reporter and national correspondent at The New York Times. As head of the Rocky Mountains Bureau, based in Denver, I covered politics, business, sports, environment, entertainment, travel and other subjects in a 10-state territory. In New York, my beats over the years included transportation, neighborhoods, and consumer affairs. BOOKS I have six books to my credit, including A Long Way, Baby: Behind The Scenes in Women's Pro Tennis, Machisma: Women and Daring, Musical Gumbo: the Music of New Orleans, written with Laura Dankner, and two titles on buying and selling real estate. MAGAZINE EXPERIENCE In addition to serving as Executive Editor of World Tennis, I have written for numerous other magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, New York, Vogue, Esquire, Rolling Stone, AARP Magazine, Smithsonian and Outside. My book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post Book World. PUBLIC RELATIONS AND TEACHING From 1993-1995 I was Director of Public Relations at the New School for Social Research, now the New School University. I handled media requests and publicity for its degree-granting divisions, including Parsons School of Design, and its continuing education program. I have taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and at New York's City College. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS I am a member of the Authors Guild, Journalism and Women Symposium, National Book Critics Circle and the North American Snowsports Journalists Association. EDUCATION AND PERSONAL INFORMATION A native New Yorker, I graduated (maiden name: Grace Rosenthal) from Brooklyn College, Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, with honors in Comparative Literature. Divorced with no children, I count among my hobbies reading, skiing, tennis, bicycle riding and rooting for the New York Mets. In 1992, I spent 48 days riding a bicycle cross-country from Seattle to Asbury Park, N.J., to raise money for breast cancer research. I chronicled that journey in twice-weekly dispatches published in The New York Times. REFERENCES On request. |
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