Leslie Knowlton is a journalist and author whose work has been published in dozens of newspapers including the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and New York Daily News; and magazines such as American Health, Bottom Line/Personal, Cosmopolitan, Fitness, Folio:Magazine, Moneysworth, New Beauty and Penthouse. She also writes for online media including Revolution Health and the New York Academy of Sciences’ web site. Her work has also been published or reprinted on dozens of other web sites and in books.

For more than a decade, she worked primarily for the Los Angeles Times, where she began by covering city beats in Orange County and later became a New York City-based correspondent for that newspaper’s Life & Style section.

Ms. Knowlton also has had more than a decade of experience as a medical writer and contributing editor for the Psychiatric Times, a national trade journal for psychiatrists, and its associated web site (Mental Health InfoSource) and magazines including Medicine & Behavior (for primary-care doctors) and Geriatric Times (for physicians specializing in care of older patients).

Overall, she has had more than 900 articles published in the popular and medical press, written under bylines Leslie Knowlton and Leslie Herzog, and the pseudonym Lida Brooks.

Before beginning her journalism career, Ms. Knowlton was vice president of Koelzer & Associates Public Relations, a director of research for Grubb & Ellis Co. and self-employed as a research consultant in various other business and academic venues. She has an MA in psychology with a specialization in research methods and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction.

Residing in New York City and on Deer Isle, Maine, Ms. Knowlton is now working on a memoir-in-essays and a narrative nonfiction podcast.

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