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Pamela Druckerman is an American-French writer and
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@pameladruck
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Pamela Druckerman is an American-French writer and journalist
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living in Paris
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, France
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. In fall 2013, she became a contributing opinion writer for ''The New York Times International Edition
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''.
Education and early life
Pamela Druckerman grew up in Miami where her "life plan elegantly combined the city’s worship of bodies and money, and its indifference to how you came by either." She received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Colgate University and a master's in international affairs fromColumbia University
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's School of International and Public Affairs
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in 1998.
From 1997 to 2002 she was a staff reporter at ''The Wall Street Journal
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'' based in Buenos Aires
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, Argentina
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; São Paulo
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, Brazil; and New York, covering economics and politics. She has also reported from Tokyo
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, Japan; Moscow
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, Russia; Johannesburg
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, South Africa; and Jerusalem
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, Israel. Previously she was a Council on Foreign Relations term member and performed improv comedy
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with the Upright Citizens Brigade
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.
She became a naturalised French citizen in 2017.
Writing
Druckerman is best known as the author of ''Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting'', a book about Frenchparenting
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philosophy and tips published by Penguin in 2012. It was published in the United Kingdom
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as ''French Children Don't Throw Food'' by Doubleday.
She also published ''Lust In Translation: Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee'' in 2007 with Penguin Group
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that examined the nature of marital infidelity. She claims that North America is the worst place to have an extramarital affair, because of the high degree of honesty Americans expect from their partners, and observed that the French have a much more understanding and permissive attitude towards adultery.
Her latest book is published in 2018 and it is a portrait of modern middle age called ''There Are No Grown-Ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story'', which Kirkus Reviews called “a trenchant and witty book on maturity and ‘middle-age shock.’”
Her op-eds
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and articles have appeared in ''The New York Times
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'', ''The Washington Post
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'', '' Marie Claire'', ''The Guardian
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'', and ''Monocle
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''. She also appears on news shows, including '' Good Morning America'', the ''Today
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'' show, National Public Radio
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, and BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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...Time
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'' 100 most influential people
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of 2012., ''
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'', March 29, 2012.References
External links
*@pameladruck
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