Stefanie Wilder-Taylor is an American humorist. She worked for years as a writer and producer on
game shows
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including ''Love Lounge'' (2005), ''
The Dating Game
''The Dating Game'' is an American television game show that first aired on December 20, 1965, and was the first of many shows created and packaged by Chuck Barris from the 1960s through the 1980s. ABC dropped the show on July 6, 1973, but it ...
'' (1997), and
''Blind Date'' (1999). She then became famous for a series of books in which she displayed an irreverent attitude toward parenthood. In ''
The New York Times
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'' in 2009, Jan Hoffman wrote, "Ms. Wilder-Taylor, a former stand-up comic, has made a career from championing cocktail play-date attitude. With books like ''Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay'' and ''Naptime Is the New Happy Hour'' and her scabrously funny Web column, 'Make Mine a Double: Tales of Twins and Tequila,' she has been the toast of the antiperfection mom-lit world."
Taylor was born in
Queens, New York City
Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located on Long Island, it is the largest New York City borough by area. It is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn at the western tip of Long ...
. Her father was the standup comedian
Stanley Myron Handelman
Stanley Myron Handelman (November 21, 1929 – August 5, 2007) was an American stand-up comedian who, during a ten-year period between 1965 and 1975, appeared on numerous television variety shows.
Early years
The Brooklyn-born Handelman was a ...
. She has been married to Jon Taylor, a television producer, since 2005. The couple has three children
and resides in
Encino, California
Encino (Spanish for "oak") is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California.
History
In 1769, the Spanish Portolá expedition, first Europeans to see inland areas of California, traveled north through Sepulveda ...
.
Published works
*''Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay'' Gallery Books, April 1, 2006
*''Naptime Is the New Happy Hour'' Simon Spotlight Entertainment, March 25, 2008
*''It's Not Me, It's You: Subjective Recollections from a Terminally Optimistic, Chronically Sarcastic and Occasionally Inebriated Woman'' Gallery Books, September 14, 2010,
*''I'm Kind of a Big Deal: And Other Delusions of Adequacy'' Gallery Books, June 7, 2011
*''Gummi Bears Should Not Be Organic: And Other Opinions I Can't Back Up With Facts'' Gallery Books, April 7, 2015
*'' In Your Right Mind'' - a weekly talk radio broadcast.
References
External links
Official pageStefanie Wilder-Taylor on Larry King LiveMarch 26, 2010
American bloggers
People from Queens, New York
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women non-fiction writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American women bloggers
21st-century American women writers
American humorists
American women comedians
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