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Julia Cheiffetz
Julia Cheiffetz is an American publisher, writer, and editor who currently lives in New York City. Cheiffetz launched One Signal Publishers, an imprint of Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster. She has published Harold Bloom, Stanley Fish, Greg Graffin, Erica Jong, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Stephen Marche, Cass Sunstein, Jessica Valenti, and Sam Wasson, whose breakout bestseller ''Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.'' was widely acclaimed. Early life Julia was born on September 18, 1978, in Williamsville, New York. She received her bachelor's degree from Barnard College in 2000. Career After graduating from Barnard, Cheiffetz taught English in Yokohama, Japan, as part of the JET Programme. In 2002 she started her publishing career as an Editorial Assistant at Random House. Cheiffetz spent the first six years of her publishing career at Random House where she published the controversial anthology ''This Is Not Chick Lit'' and the debut works of many writers including Karen Abbott and E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of New York (behind only New York City) and the seat of Erie County. It is at the eastern end of Lake Erie, at the head of the Niagara River, and is across the Canadian border from Southern Ontario. With a population of 278,349 according to the 2020 census, Buffalo is the 78th-largest city in the United States. The city and nearby Niagara Falls together make up the two-county Buffalo–Niagara Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which had an estimated population of 1.1 million in 2020, making it the 49th largest MSA in the United States. Buffalo is in Western New York, which is the largest population and economic center between Boston and Cleveland. Before the 17th century, the region was inhabited by nomadic Paleo-Indians who were succeeded by the Neutral, Erie, and Iroquois nations. In the early 17th century, the French began to explore the region. In the 18th century, Iroquois land surrounding Buffalo C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert King (author)
Gilbert Anthony King (born February 22, 1962) is an American writer and photographer. He is known best as the author of '' Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America'' (2012), which won the Pulitzer Prize. With short biography and publisher's description. His previous history was ''The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South'' (2008) and his most recent is ''Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found'' (2018). He has written for ''The New York Times'' and ''The Washington Post'', and he is a featured contributor to the ''Smithsonian's'' history blog ''Past Imperfect''. As a photographer, his work has appeared in many magazines including international editions of ''Vogue'', '' Harper's Bazaar'', '' Marie Claire'', and ''Cosmopolitan''. Biography Gilbert King was born in 1962 in Rockville Center, New York and grew up in St. James, both on L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What Happened (Clinton Book)
''What Happened'' is a 2017 memoir by Hillary Clinton about her experiences as the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party's Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign, nominee and general election candidate for president of the United States in the 2016 United States presidential election, 2016 election. Published on September 1, 2017, it is her seventh book with her publisher, Simon & Schuster. A paperback edition featuring a new afterword was released in September 2018, as was a Spanish translation titled ''Lo que pasó''. Inception and advance publicity Existence of a new Clinton work was first revealed in February 2017, but at the time it was billed as a volume of essays centered around the author's favorite sayings, with only some allusions to the campaign. Financial terms of that work, which had no announced title, were not publicly disclosed but industry observers expected her monetary compensation to be large. The new purposing of the work and its themat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, and former lawyer who served as the 67th United States Secretary of State for President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a United States senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and as First Lady of the United States as the wife of President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee for president in the 2016 presidential election, becoming the first woman to win a presidential nomination by a major U.S. political party; Clinton won the popular vote, but lost the Electoral College vote, thereby losing the election to Donald Trump. Raised in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Rodham graduated from Wellesley College in 1969 and earned a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 1973. After serving as a congressional legal counsel, she moved to Arkansas and married future president Bill Clinton in 1975; the tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in 1968. He became president of his father's real estate business in 1971 and renamed it The Trump Organization. He expanded the company's operations to building and renovating skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. He later started side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. From 2004 to 2015, he co-produced and hosted the reality television series '' The Apprentice''. Trump and his businesses have been involved in more than 4,000 state and federal legal actions, including six bankruptcies. Trump's political positions have been described as populist, protectionist, isolationist, and nationalist. He won the 2016 United States presidential election as the Republican nominee against Democratic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katy Tur
Katherine Bear Tur (born October 26, 1983) is an American author and broadcast journalist working as a correspondent for NBC News. Tur is an anchor for MSNBC Reports, where since 2021 she has hosted ''Katy Tur Reports'' on MSNBC. She has also reported for the NBC news platforms ''Early Today'', ''Today'', ''NBC Nightly News'', ''Meet the Press'', WNBC-TV, MSNBC, and The Weather Channel. Early life Tur is the daughter of journalists Zoey Tur and Marika Gerrard. She graduated from Brentwood School (2001), and from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2005) with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy. She is of Jewish descent. Career Tur reported for KTLA, HD News/Cablevision, News 12 Brooklyn, WPIX-TV, and Fox 5 New York. Later on, Tur worked as a storm chaser for The Weather Channel on the network's VORTEX2 team. NBC News In 2009, Tur joined NBC's local station in New York City, WNBC-TV, and then rose to the flagship NBC News at the national network level. That year she w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shana Knizhnik
Shana Knizhnik (born August 22, 1988) is an American lawyer and author from Philadelphia. She is best known for her ''New York Times'' bestselling book, ''Notorious R.B.G.: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg'', co-written with MSNBC reporter Irin Carmon. Early life and education Knizhnik is Jewish. She graduated from Julia R. Masterman School (2006), the Columbia College, Columbia University (2010), and the New York University School of Law (2015). While at Columbia, Shana competed in the American Mock Trial Association and served as an Assistant Coach for Columbia Mock Trial. During her time at NYU, she served as an Articles Editor of the New York University Law Review and served on the Boards of the Coalition for Law and Representation and OUTLaw and performed in the NYU Law Revue and the a cappella group Substantial Performance. She interned at the American Civil Liberties Union, the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, and the Legal Aid Society. Upon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irin Carmon
Irin Carmon () (born 1983/1984) is an Israeli-American journalist and commentator. She is a senior correspondent at ''New York Magazine'', and a CNN contributor. She is co-author of ''Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg''. Previously, she was a national reporter at MSNBC, covering women, politics, and culture for the website and on air. She was a visiting fellow in the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice at Yale Law School. In 2011, she was named one of ''Forbes "30 under 30" in media and featured in ''New York Magazine'' as a face of young feminism. She received the November 2011 Sidney award from The Sidney Hillman Foundation recognizing her reporting on the Mississippi Personhood Initiative for Salon. Mediaite named her among four in its award for Best TV pundit of 2014. Early life Carmon is Jewish and was born in Israel, the granddaughter of Zionists who lived in Palestine during World War II. She grew up on Long Island. She is a naturalized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan. The company is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News Corp. The name is a combination of several publishing firm names: Harper & Row, an American publishing company acquired in 1987—whose own name was the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers (founded in 1817) and Row, Peterson & Company—together with Scottish publishing company William Collins, Sons (founded in 1819), acquired in 1989. The worldwide CEO of HarperCollins is Brian Murray. HarperCollins has publishing groups in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, India, and China. The company publishes many different imprints, both former independent publishing houses and new imprints. History Collins Harper Mergers and acquisitions Collins was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penny Marshall
Carole Penny MarshallBorn Carole Penny Marshall in 1943, as per ''My Mother Was Nuts, a Memoir'', p. 10; . Copyright 2012 (October 15, 1943 – December 17, 2018) was an American actress, director and producer. She is known for her role as Laverne DeFazio on the television sitcom '' Laverne & Shirley'' (1976–1983), receiving three nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy for her portrayal. Marshall made her directorial debut with ''Jumpin' Jack Flash'' (1986) before directing ''Big'' (1988), which became the first film directed by a woman to gross more than $100 million at the U.S. box office. Her subsequent directing credits included ''Awakenings'' (1990), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, ''A League of Their Own'' (1992), ''Renaissance Man'' (1994), '' The Preacher's Wife'' (1996) and ''Riding in Cars with Boys'' (2001). She also produced '' Cinderella Man'' (2005) and '' Bewitched'' (2005 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Ferriss
Timothy Ferriss (born July 20, 1977) is an American entrepreneur, investor, author, podcaster, and lifestyle guru. He became well-known through his ''4-Hour'' self-help book series—including ''The 4-Hour Work Week'', ''The 4-Hour Body'', and ''The 4-Hour Chef''—that focused on lifestyle optimizations, but he has since reconsidered this approach. Early life Ferriss grew up in East Hampton, New York. Throughout childhood, Ferriss experienced poor health, sparking an interest in self-improvement. After graduating from St. Paul's School, Ferriss matriculated at Princeton University, earning a B.A. in East Asian studies in 2000. His senior thesis was titled ''Acquisition of Japanese Kanji: Conventional Practice and Mnemonic Supplementation'', under the supervision of Seiichi Makino. After graduating from Princeton, Ferriss worked in sales at a data storage company. Career In 2001, Ferriss founded BrainQUICKEN, an internet-based nutritional supplements business, while still emplo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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