Suzanne Braun Levine

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Suzanne Braun Levine is an American author and editor.[1] From 1972 until 1988 she was the first editor of Ms., and she was later the first female editor of the Columbia Journalism Review.[2] While at Ms. she developed and produced the documentary She's Nobody's Baby: American Women in the 20th Century, which aired as an HBO special and won a Peabody award.[2] She later edited the book based on the show.[2] She was the guest Editor-in-Chief of the 30th Anniversary issue of Ms. magazine in 2002.[3] She was named a Ms. Magazine "Woman of the Year" in 2004.[4] She joined the Board of Civic Ventures (now Encore.org) in 2009, and is also on the Board of the Ms. Foundation for Education and Communication, and on the Advisory Board for the Women’s Media Center and The Transition Network.[3] She gave a talk at TEDxWomen in 2011.[5][6]

Levine has written for many websites including: Feisty Side of Fifty, The Transition Network, The Third Age, Vibrant Nation, AARP, Huff/Post50, Next/Avenue, SheWrites, and Feminist.com.[5] She has also appeared on TV and radio shows including: Oprah, Charlie Rose, Today, and NPR.[5]

The papers from her time at Ms. magazine are now in the Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s Archives at Smith College.[3]

She is married to the attorney Robert F. Levine, and has two children.[3]

Books

  • A Decade of Women: A Ms. History of the Seventies in Words and Pictures (1980), with Levine as coeditor with Harriet Lyons
  • She's Nobody's Baby; A History of American Women in the 20th Century (1983), by Andrea Dworkin with Levine as editor
  • Walk It Off: 20 Minutes a Day to Health and Fitness (Dec 1, 1990)
  • Father Courage: What Happens When Men Put Family First (Apr 17, 2000)
  • Sisterhood is Forever (2003), edited by Robin Morgan, Levine only wrote the essay “Parenting: A New Social Contract”
  • Your Feet Don't Have to Hurt: A Woman's Guide to Lifelong Foot Care (Sep 17, 2001)
  • Woman's Guide to Second Adulthood (Feb 7, 2005)
  • Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood (Dec 27, 2005)
  • Bella Abzug: How One Tough Broad from the Bronx Fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, Pissed Off Jimmy Carter, Battled for the Rights of Women and Workers, Rallied Against War and for the Planet, and Shook Up Politics Along the Way (2008), with Mary Thom
  • Fifty Is the New Fifty: Ten Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood (Mar 30, 2010)
  • How We Love Now: Sex and the New Intimacy in Second Adulthood (Dec 29, 2011)
  • You Gotta Have Girlfriends: A Post-Fifty Posse Is Good for Your Health (Apr 16, 2013)

References

  1. ↑ "Suzanne Braun Levine". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2013-10-04. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Suzanne Braun Levine". Gender.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2013-10-04. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "About". Suzanne Braun Levine. Retrieved 2013-10-04. 
  4. ↑ "An Interview With Suzanne Braun Levine". Sanmiguelwritersconferenceblog.org. 2013-02-16. Retrieved 2013-10-04. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Suzanne Braun Levine". TEDxWomen. 2012-01-02. Retrieved 2013-10-04. 
  6. ↑ "The Conversation Continues: Suzanne Braun Levine". TEDxWomen. 2012-03-26. Retrieved 2013-10-04. 

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