Hallie Fryd grew up in Moorestown, NJ a Philadelphia suburb, founded by Quakers and voted best place to live in America by Money Magazine in 2005.

 

In high school, Hallie was that annoying kid who was always raising her hand, insisting that, “the book was better than the movie,” skulking around the art room, and stinking at volleyball. She was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Scholarship by Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where she graduated in 2000 with a BFA in Communication Design and a minor in History. She still can’t get over that C in woodshop.

 

Now living in Oakland, Hallie writes about pop-culture, politics, history and miscellaneous. A life-long history nerd Hallie hoped that a sugary spoon full of scandal would help what can be a dry dose of history go down. Researching and writing Scandalous! was the most interesting experience of her life, but it has left her interjecting only partially related historical facts into every conversation. When not interjecting (but more often, while interjecting), Hallie enjoys thrift shopping, seeing bands, yelling at cable news and hoping it doesn’t rain.

Hallie Fryd

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