Constance Rosenblum is an American newspaper editor,
biographer
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Biographers
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, and author.
Her books include ''Gold Digger: The Outrageous Life and Times of Peggy Hopkins Joyce'', which was named an editor's choice by ''
The New Yorker
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'', and ''Boulevard of Dreams'', a history of the
Grand Concourse. She is the editor of ''
The New York Times
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'' City section. She was the editor of the paper's Arts and Leisure section from 1990 to 1997.
Rosenblum grew up in
Middletown, New York, and graduated from
Emma Willard School
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and
Bryn Mawr College
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.
Talk to the Newsroom
''The New York Times'', December 6, 2008
References
American women journalists
Living people
American biographers
American newspaper editors
People from Middletown, Orange County, New York
Bryn Mawr College alumni
Historians from New York (state)
Women newspaper editors
Year of birth missing (living people)
Historians of New York City
American women biographers
Emma Willard School alumni
21st-century American women
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