Advice for teen girls.
Fiction…
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.
Subjects
Specialties
Skills
- Books
- Essays
- Op-Ed
- Television
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…
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
Selected Work
As author, unless indicated otherwise.
Speed of Life
A novel that came straight from the heart and took ten years to write. It’s about a girl, Sofia, 14, who bares her soul to an advice columnist — and doesn’t realize that the advice columnist is dating her recently widowed father.
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