Dawn Eden

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Dawn Eden (born September 3, 1968) is an American author, headline writer, popular music historian, freelance writer, and social and religious commentator. She is the author of The Thrill of the Chaste: Finding Fulfillment While Keeping Your Clothes On.

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Ms. Eden began her career as a popular-music historian, writing for Mojo (magazine), Salon, New York Press, Billboard, among other magazines. Ms. Eden has co-authored The Encyclopedia of Singles and contributed to other books, including Mojo (magazine)'s The Beatles: 10 Years That Shook the World, and Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics.

She has also penned liner notes for eighty CD reissues; and had released one recording of her own, a cover of Kirsty MacColl's "They Don't Know" on the Stiff Records tribute album, The Stiff Generation.

Dawn Eden works as an editor at the New York Daily News, where she is the deputy news editor for regional editions. Ms. Eden has also worked as a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, National Review Online and Crux magazine.

She frequently offers commentary on her blog The Dawn Patrol wherein she examines and critiques the organization Planned Parenthood, as well as exploring topics related to her religious faith and other cultural issues.