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Lisa Birnbach

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Lisa R. Birnbach is an author best known for co-authoring The Official Preppy Handbook, which spent 38 weeks at number one on the New York Times bestseller list in 1980.[1][2]

Contents

1 Early life and education

2 Career

3 Personal life

4 Bibliography

5 Notes

6 External links

Early life and education

Birnbach was born on the Upper East Side of New York. Birnbach attended the Birch Wathen Lenox School from 1962 to 1971 and the Riverdale Country School (class of 1974). She went on to study at Barnard College for freshman year, before transferring to Brown University where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors in Semiotics in 1978.[3]

Career

After graduation, Birnbach toured Europe and worked for an advertising agency. From April 1979, Birnbach worked as a staff writer at The Village Voice, where she co-wrote the Scenes column. Since The Official Preppy Handbook Lisa has written an additional 15 books, for newspapers such as the New York Times, and for magazines such as Glamour, Parade, Rolling Stone, and TV Guide. She was the deputy editor of Spy magazine.[2][4]

Birnbach worked as a technical consultant on the movie Dead Poets Society. She has co–hosted Good Night America and was a correspondent on The Early Show, hosting the segment, “Yikes! I'm a Grownup!” She is co–creator and co–host of ABC's Zero Hour, co–writer of the off–Broadway revue, Loose Lips, and until 2007, she hosted the comedy radio program, The Lisa Birnbach Show.[2]

In 2010, she wrote True Prep: It’s a Whole New Old World with Chip Kidd.[5][6] She appeared on the Colbert Report on 13 September 2010.[7]

Personal life

Birnbach resides in New York City.

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She also went on a college lecture tour and put her vast knowledge of college life to use when she wrote Lisa Birnbach's College Book, offering the inside scoop on campuses. She has since been the writer and co-writer of 20 books and has written for Parade, New York, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Travel & Leisure.

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Two women who say famed advice columnist E. Jean Carroll confided in them after President Donald Trump allegedly raped her in the 1990s spoke out publicly for the first time in a New York Times interview released Thursday.

Carol Martin, a former TV news anchor in New York, and author Lisa Birnbach joined Carroll on Wednesday for an interview with Times reporter Megan Twohey.

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Chip Kidd Lisa Birnbach for USA Today in New York United ..

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/29/a-hideous-men-walking-tour

E. Jean CarrollIllustration by João Fazenda

When E. Jean Carroll, the long-standing advice columnist for Elle magazine, set off to lead her “Most Hideous Men in NYC” walking tour on a recent Sunday, she looked more equipped for the Cotswolds than for the sidewalks of New York. She had on a yellow rain slicker slashed with red stripes, and riding boots. Eleven women and one man convened at the meeting place, the northern entrance of Bergdorf Goodman, at 4 p.m. Most of the participants appeared to be in their twenties or thirties; two appeared to be in their late fifties. A few said that they worked in fashion and had women as bosses. Many had heeded the invitation’s suggestion to bring snacks.

Carroll, who is a youthful seventy-six and has spiky blond hair, welcomed her charges. “So many women in New York have been scronched, thumped, pummelled, banged, and rogered by men, it is difficult sometimes to keep them all straight,” she said. “So I will be referring to notes. If you have been pummelled, banged, or rogered by men somewhere along this route, please speak up!”

“What does ‘rogered’ mean?” one of the younger women asked.

“You never heard of ‘rogered’?” Carroll roared. “It means to take a woman from the back.” She continued, “This is not a museum. Sometimes there are entire blocks where I do not name a hideous man. This does not mean that many, many, many hideous men up in the buildings we are passing are not passing women over for promotions and grabbing, poking, thumping, pummelling, banging, and rogering them as we walk by.”

The tour was not for cowards, she added: “If you feel that we are about to be unfair to men, get the hell out!” All eyes turned to the one man in the group, a tall fellow with slicked-back hair, wearing a well-cut suit and aviator sunglasses. His name was Tabber Benedict, and he said that he was a former lawyer. He had been convicted of aggravated vehicular assault after a hit-and-run in the Hamptons, in 2011. (Before the start of his three-year prison sentence, he invited friends to say goodbye at a party at the night club No. 8.) Benedict, who had brought a date with him, seemed unfazed by Carroll’s trigger warning.

Carroll cocked her head at him and pronounced him a dead ringer for George Hamilton. Only the two older guests knew who that was.

She turned and faced the Plaza Hotel. “Until 1969, only men were allowed to eat lunch in the famous Oak Room,” she announced. “Betty Friedan’s husband used to go there. Betty Friedan actually had to lead a protest.” A member of the group Googled Betty Friedan. “Then they finally let women come in, to have that goddam salad, dressing on the side.” Three of the young women looked shocked. “At the moment, the Plaza is fighting a lawsuit brought by a group of female employees who accused the hotel of fostering ‘rape culture,’ ” Carroll continued. “They say they have been grabbed, groped, or pushed into rooms.”

The group moved a couple of blocks south, to Tiffany & Co. “Allow me to tell you the story of Mrs. Paula Smith,” Carroll said. “She was the head of estate jewelry at Tiffany. Mrs. Smith was fired after she complained that a male colleague told her she was too aggressive. She sued, and won the largest settlement to date from the New York State Division of Human Rights—three hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. This was in 1994!”

At this point, Benedict spoke up. “The U.S. dollar has lost a significant percentage of its value since then,” he said. He’d been dabbling in cryptocurrency while waiting to see if he could apply for readmission to the New York bar, he explained.

The tour continued on to Trump Tower, where the group walked past a line of heavily armed soldiers. “Twenty-three women have come forward to say that President Trump tried to ogle, touch, grindy-grindy, grabby-grabby, and worse with them,” Carroll said. “It is twenty-four women if we include Ivana, the mother of Don, Jr., Eric, and Ivanka.”

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Back on the sidewalk, she hollered, “Pull out the snacks!” Pretzels were passed around, as was water and airplane-size bottles of rosé. Next stop was St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Carroll brought up Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, calling him “a hideous man who stands out among hideous men,” guilty of “preying on boys who wanted to be priests.” She went on, “He is the first cardinal in two thousand years who had to step down from the College of Cardinals.”

The tourgoers were winded and a bit demoralized, but Carroll hustled them on to Rockefeller Center (Bill Cosby and Matt Lauer), the Fox News offices (Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly), and CBS headquarters, on West Fifty-second Street (Charlie Rose and Les Moonves). Benedict and his date had to leave early. He confided to one tourgoer why he had come. “My theory is, I may look better in comparison,” he said. “And she”—he gestured at his date—“may actually say yes when I propose someday.”