Harriet Brown is an American writer,
magazine editor
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, and professor of magazine journalism at the
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at
Syracuse University
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.
Career
She began her magazine career in 1979, with a stint at ''Popular Science'' magazine. She was part of the start-up staffs for both
''Wigwag'' magazine, 1989–1991, and ''American Girl'' magazine
American Girl
American Girl is an American line of dolls released on May 5, 1986, by Pleasant Company. The dolls portray eight- to fourteen-year-old boys and girls of a variety of ethnicities, faiths, and social classes from different time periods throughou ...
, 1992–2000. Her 2006 ''New York Times'' article "One Spoonful at a Time" chronicled her daughter's descent into anorexia and recovery via
family-based treatment, also known as the Maudsley approach. That article became the basis of her 2010 book, ''Brave Girl Eating''. Her experiences inspired Brown to begin working as an advocate for better eating-disorders treatment. That same year she helped foun
Maudsley Parents a website offering resources to families struggling with anorexia.
As a professor at Newhouse, Brown continues to write, research, and teach about eating disorders and body image as well as other issues, including family estrangement. She writes for ''The New York Times'' science section and
magazine
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, ''
O: The Oprah Magazine'',
''Health'' magazine, and many other publications. In 2011 she won the John F. Murray Prize in Strategic Communication for the Public Good,
awarded by the University of Iowa School of Journalism. She currently lives in Syracuse, NY.
Bibliography
Writer
*
Shadow Daughter: A Memoir of Estrangement'
*
Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight—and What We Can Do About It'
*
Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia'
*
The Good-bye Window: A Year in the Life of a Day-Care Center'
Editor
*''Mr. Wrong: Real-Life Stories About the Men We Used to Love'' (
Ballantine), 2007
*''Feed Me!: Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Body Image, and Weight'' (Ballantine, 2009)
References
External links
Harriet Brown's websiteMaudsley ParentsProject BodyTalkTraining Institute for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders
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American magazine editors
Living people
Syracuse University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women non-fiction writers
20th-century American non-fiction writers
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American women writers
Women magazine editors
American women academics