Biography
I am an author, book critic and former New York Times reporter. In recent years I have written online and in print about sports, music, recreation and travel. I also have done book reviews for numerous publications.
As a ghostwriter, I assisted renowned psychiatrist Ari Kiev on five books about the psychology of risk, all published by John Wiley & Sons.
My freelance journalism has appeared in the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post.
NEWSPAPER CAREER
I was a reporter and national correspondent at The New York Times for 15 years. 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 City, my beats over the years included transportation, neighborhoods, and consumer affairs.
ONLINE EXPERIENCE
For more than 25 years, starting at the dawn of the internet as we know it, I was an online editor and writer. Among the companies I worked for: CNN, Dow Jones, Business Week, Healthscout.com, and Excite.com. In 1996 I was a founder of the website Sports For Women.
BOOKS
A Long Way, Baby: Behind The Scenes in Women's Pro Tennis was my first book, originally published in 1974 by William Morrow & Company. My other titles include Machisma: Women and Daring (1981, Doubleday); and Musical Gumbo: the Music of New Orleans, written with Laura Dankner (1993, W.W. Norton & Co.)
MAGAZINES, PUBLIC RELATIONS AND TEACHING
I have written for dozens of major magazines including The New York Times Magazine, New York, Vogue, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and Smithsonian.
From 1993-1995 I was Public Relations Director at the New School. 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, National Book Critics Circle, and PEN America.
LEISURE AND PHILANTHROPIC WORK
In retirement I have been a paid volunteer for Single Stop, an anti poverty and social service organization... a board member of Bike New York, which promotes bicycling and bicycle safety through its Five Boro Bike Tour and other programs...and a board member of the New York Cycle Club.
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, 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.