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Deborah Copaken

Biography

Deborah Copaken

Deborah Copaken is the New York Times bestselling author of several books, including SHUTTERBABE, THE RED BOOK and BETWEEN HERE AND APRIL. A contributing writer at The Atlantic, she was also a TV writer on "Emily in Paris," a performer (The Moth, etc.), and an Emmy Award-winning news producer and photojournalist. Her photographs have appeared in Time, Newsweek and The New York Times. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, The Observer, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, Slate, O: The Oprah Magazine and Paris Match, among other publications. Her column, “When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist,” was adapted for the "Modern Love" streaming series. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.

Deborah Copaken

Books by Deborah Copaken

by Deborah Copaken - Memoir, Nonfiction

Twenty years after her iconic memoir SHUTTERBABE, Deborah Copaken is at her darkly comedic nadir: battered, broke, divorcing, dissected and dying --- literally --- on sexism’s battlefield as she scoops up what she believes to be her internal organs into a glass container before heading off to the hospital…in an UberPool. LADYPARTS is her irreverent inventory of both the female body and the body politic of womanhood in America, the story of one woman brought to her knees by the 1-2-12 punch of divorce, solo motherhood, healthcare Frogger, unaffordable childcare, shady landlords, her father’s death, college tuitions, sexual harassment, corporate indifference, ageism, sexism and plain old bad luck.