Middlebury M.A. Spanish, 1980
Yale B.A. French/Spanish Comp Lit, 1978; Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude
(Bildner Prize; DeForrest Prize; Elizabethan Club)
School Year Abroad in Rennes, France, 1974
Byram Hills High School in Armonk, N.Y. 1974 (Go, Bobcats!)
BOOKS
* MELANIE IN MANHATTAN Knopf, February 2005; paperback July 2006
* GIRLTALK: All The Stuff Your Sister Never Told You, HarperCollins. Fourth Edition, 2004
New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age; iParenting Media Award; translated into Chinese, Mandarin, Polish, Vietnamese, Latvian, Czech, Russian, British; in print since 1985
* FOR GIRLS ONLY: Wise Words, Good Advice HarperTrophy, 1998; 2004, also in Chinese / Indonesian / Korean
American Bookseller Association Spring Pick of the List; NYPL Books for the Teen Age
* WITH LOVE FROM SPAIN, MELANIE MARTIN Knopf, 2004; paperback 2005
* FOR TEENS ONLY: Quotes, Notes, & Advice You Can Use HarperCollins, 2003
* THE GIRLS' LIFE AWESOME ADVICE GUIDE TO EVERYTHING, Scholastic, 2003
* MELANIE MARTIN GOES DUTCH Knopf, 2002; paperback 2003
* THE DIARY OF MELANIE MARTIN Knopf, 2000; paperback, 2001; Italian, Mondadori; Czech, BB/art 2007; Kentucky Bluegrass Award, 2002
* PRIVATE AND PERSONAL HarperTrophy, 2000; Chinese 2002
* FROM HERE TO MATERNITY Little, Brown, 1991; German, 1996
* GIRLTALK ABOUT GUYS Harper & Row, 1987
* HOW TO HONEYMOON Harper & Row, 1986
COLUMN, ARTICLES, ESSAYS, and QUIZZES
Girls' Life advice columnist since 1994 ("Dear Carol"); also columnist online
Have written for Seventeen, Glamour, American Way, Bride's, Redbook, The New York Times
Woman's Day, Parents, Family Circle, Cigar Aficionado, YM, Teen, HG, Us, Cosmopolitan, Yale Magazine,
Chicago Tribune, Careers, Ladies' Home Journal, Essence, McCall's, Parenting, Good Housekeeping...
TELEVISION
The Today Show 1-2-01 with Katie Couric; Oprah Winfrey, 5-28-97; 48 Hours '02;
The View: 6-2-98 and 4-13-99 and pilot
Have been a featured guest or "Voice of Reason" on NPR "All Things Considered," CNN Headline News (with my daughters), The God Squad, Montel Williams, Caroline Rhea, MSNBC, CBS This Morning, CNN, Fox Family File, Bloomberg, Good Day New York, CNNfn The Flipside, Phil Donahue, Scarborough, Sally, Geraldo, Ricki, even Jerry Springer (!)
KEYNOTE SPEECHES, SATELLITE MEDIA TOURS, SPOKESPERSON, MODERATOR WORK
Scientific Committee and Speaker, XIV Susanne Hubner International Seminar "Finding Your Voice" (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain, 2007); Many book tours; Keynote at "Today's Girl in Tomorrow's World" (Nashville, 2006); Keynote at the Girl Scout "Healthy Girls, Healthy Lives" Symposium (San Diego, 2005); Moderator for "Teens, Stress and Drugs" Roundtables presented by National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign '04 in NY and LA; Spokesperson for MSN '03, '06 (Maloney & Fox); I-Zone '02 (Paine PR); Playtex '99 (Weber); Cheer '99, '00; Quaker Chewy '98, '00 (BSMG); Ziploc '92-94 (Golin/Harris); Puerto Rico Tourism '86 (Rowland)
SPECIALTIES AND SCHOOL VISITS
"Dear Abby for girls" (have personally answered bazillions of letters and emails)
Fluent French and Spanish; okay Italian
Reviewer of books for Yale Magazine, picturebooks for Redbook, movies for Parents; have published poems for kids (Scholastic)
Judge for Newsweek "My Turn" for teens contest; Judge for New York Society Library children's writing
Have spoken to students, parents, and educators in New York City: Columbia School for Journalism; American Museum of Natural History; New York Society Library; ASJA; Marymount Writer's Conference; Girls Inc; Cosmopolitan Club; Teak; Spence; Nightingale; Brearley; Cathedral; Trinity; Town; Rodeph Sholom; Hewitt; Friends Seminary; Grace Church; Marymount School; Ethical; Hunter; School at Columbia; P.S. 75; PS 314; Police Athletic League Harlem Center; Bronx Lab; Brooklyn Tech; The Convent of Mercy (Brooklyn); many others.
Outside NYC: Yale University (Master's Tea '02, Women's Center '06, '07, Reunions '03, '08), Greens Farms, Burnham, North Street, Guilford Library, Indian Mountain School (CT), National Coalition of Girls' Schools Annual Conference, Harpeth Hall (TN); Northwestern (IL); Columbus School for Girls, Columbus Academy, and Wellington (OH); Grier (PA); Bush School (WA); Government Hill, Gladys Wood, Birchwood ABC, Atheneum (AK); Louisville Collegiate (KY); Gordon School and St. Mary Academy at Bay View (RI); Pace (GA); Windham Center School (NH); JLS in Palo Alto (CA); Westfield and Randolph (NJ); Twin Lakes, Ponte Vedra Beach Library, Vicar's Landing (FL); Masconomet and Spofford (MA); Greenville, Edgemont, Springhurst, Byram Hills, Rye Library, Colonial, Bronxville, Skidmore, Murray Avenue, Central (Westchester and NY); and so many others...