Melissa Rivers was born in New York City and grew up in Los Angeles. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in European history. Melissa’s extensive television background includes working as a features reporter for "CBS This Morning"; being a regular contributor to MTV’s "Hanging with MTV"; serving as a television host and producer for the E! network and as a host for TV Guide Channel’s event programming; and, most recently, as a contestant on "The Celebrity Apprentice." She lives in Los Angeles with her son, Cooper.

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Books by Melissa Rivers

The Book of Joan: Tales of Mirth, Mischief, and Manipulation

by Melissa Rivers - Memoir, Nonfiction

Joan and Melissa Rivers had one of the most celebrated mother-daughter relationships of all time. If you think Joan said some outrageous things to her audiences as a comedian, you won’t believe what she said and did in private. In THE BOOK OF JOAN, Melissa shares stories, bon mots and life lessons from growing up in the Rosenberg-Rivers household. She relates funny, poignant and irreverent observations, thoughts and tales about the woman who raised her and is the reason she considers valium one of the four basic food groups.