BIOGRAPHY OF SUZANNE BRAUN LEVINE
Suzanne Braun Levine is a writer, editor and nationally recognized authority on women, media matters, and family issues. Inventing the Rest of our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood (Viking, 2005; Plume, 2006), her second book, has generated a new conversation about the choices women make as they age. She is currently at work on Fifty Is the New Fifty: Life Lessons From Second Adulthood, to be published by Viking.
She has just completed (with Mary Thom) an oral history of the late Congresswoman Bella Abzug compiled from Abzug’s own words and interviews with those who knew and worked with her, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (December 2007).
Levine was editor of Ms. magazine from 1972 to 1988 and editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, the premier magazine of media criticism, from 1989 to 1997. She produced the Peabody-award winning HBO documentary "She's Nobody's Baby: American Women in the 20th Century." She is a contributing editor to More magazine, and writes a monthly blog for the More website, which also appears on her website www.SuzanneBraunLevine.com.