The Book That Changed
My Life
About the Editor, Diane Osen 
Diane
Osen, a freelance writer and editor, has
worked with scores of National Book Award authors during
her twenty-year-long association with the National
Book Foundation. As a consultant to the Foundation,
she helped launch a number of innovative outreach programs,
including "Writing Life" Reading Circles that
brought National Book Award Winners and Finalists to
rural communities, small towns and major urban areas
to explore the relationship between reading and writing
with tens of thousands of readers in some 25 states
and on the Internet. A graduate with general honors
from Vassar College, she earned a Master's degree in
English from Rutgers University before embarking on
a corporate career as a communications executive at
companies including Polaroid, Columbia Pictures and
NBC. As a freelance writer and editor, she has overseen
a wide variety of projects for corporate as well as
non-profit clients, including Fox Television, Andrews
McMeel, Eubanks/Donizetti, Manhattanville College and
The Museum of the Moving Image; in addition, she was
a regular contributor to publications such as ABC Television's
Episodes Magazine and Bride's Magazine. The author of
Royal Scandals, co-editor of The
Writing Life and co-author of Great Interview,
she taught expository and creative writing at Douglass
College in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and was an adjunct
assistant professor at New York University's School
of Continuing and Professional Studies. She lives in
Short Hills, New Jersey with her husband Rick Covkin,
and their daughter Serena.
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ISBN: 0679769838
Random House, Inc.
January, 1996
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ISBN: 1-56799-161-0
Friedman, Michael Publishing Group, Incorporated
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May 1995
ISBN: 1576853047
LearningExpress, LLC
July 2000 |
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