Kim France

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Kim France is an American editor, journalist, and author. She is the founding editor of Lucky, an award-winning national magazine with an initial circulation of 800,000, and is the author of The Lucky Shopping Manual (2003), which has 150,000 copies in print, according to its publisher, Dutton.^[1]

France has been called "the shopping guru and media revolutionary" behind Lucky. She is the subject of many articles herself, including "Kim France Got Lucky - Magazine, That Is" at H-Texas Online ^[2]. In 2004, Crain's New York Business named France as a "Rising Star" in its "40 Under 40" issue.^[3] Crain's called France "the hottest new editor at Condé Nast Publications, where she turned Lucky into the publisher’s fastest-growing launch ever." That same year, New York Magazine named France as one of New York's Most Powerful Women.

Before Lucky, France served as editor-at-large for Spin, deputy editor of New York, and had been a staff writer for Sassy, Elle, and 7 Days. She's written articles for VIBE, Rolling Stone, Allure, The New York Times Book Review, Mademoiselle, Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times Magazine, and The Village Voice. France appeared on I Love the '70s along with Alec Baldwin, Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and a dozen celebrities from that decade.

France, originally from Houston, Texas, is a graduate of Oberlin College and now lives in New York.

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