MIDDLEBURY - M.A. Spanish
YALE - Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude; B.A. French/Spanish Comparative Literature
Bildner Prize; DeForrest Prize; Elizabethan Club
Senior Thesis: Don Juan and Woman -- even then I was fascinated by relationships!
SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD (SYA) in Rennes, France -- senior year, 1974 (Vive la France!)
BYRAM HILLS H.S. in Armonk, N.Y. 1974 (Go, Bobcats!)

BOOKS (many now also on Kindle)

* MELANIE IN MANHATTAN Knopf, February 2005; paperback July 2006
* GIRLTALK: All The Stuff Your Sister Never Told You, HarperCollins. Fourth Edition, 2004
New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age; iParenting Media Award; translated into Chinese, Mandarin, Polish, Vietnamese, Latvian, Czech, Russian, Bulgarian, Indonesian, Romanian, British; in print since 1985!
* FOR GIRLS ONLY: Wise Words, Good Advice HarperTrophy, 1998; 2004, also in Chinese / Indonesian / Korean
American Bookseller Association Spring Pick of the List; NYPL Books for the Teen Age
* WITH LOVE FROM SPAIN, MELANIE MARTIN Knopf, 2004; paperback 2005
* FOR TEENS ONLY: Quotes, Notes, & Advice You Can Use HarperCollins, 2003
* THE GIRLS' LIFE AWESOME ADVICE GUIDE TO EVERYTHING Scholastic, 2003
* MELANIE MARTIN GOES DUTCH Knopf, 2002; paperback 2003
* THE DIARY OF MELANIE MARTIN Knopf, 2000; paperback, 2001; Italian, Mondadori; Czech, BB/art 2007; Kentucky Bluegrass Award, 2002
* PRIVATE AND PERSONAL HarperTrophy, 2000; Chinese 2002
* FROM HERE TO MATERNITY Little, Brown, 1991; German, 1996
* GIRLTALK ABOUT GUYS Harper & Row, 1987
* HOW TO HONEYMOON Harper & Row, 1986

COLUMN, ARTICLES, ESSAYS, and QUIZZES

Girls' Life "Dear Carol" advice columnist since 1994; also online
Have written for Seventeen, Glamour, American Way, Bride's, Redbook, The New York Times
Woman's Day, Parents, Family Circle, Cigar Aficionado, YM, Teen, HG, Us, Cosmopolitan, Yale Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Careers, Ladies' Home Journal, Essence, McCall's, Parenting, Good Housekeeping...

TELEVISION

The Today Show (with Katie Couric); Oprah Winfrey; 48 Hours; I've been on The View twice -- and Barbara Walters did a mock interview with me for the pilot!
I've been a featured guest expert and/or "Voice of Reason" on NPR "All Things Considered," CNN Headline News (with my daughters), MSNBC with David Gregory (many times), Montel Williams (a dozen times), Caroline Rhea, CBS This Morning, CNNfn The Flipside, CNN, The God Squad, Fox Family File, Bloomberg, Good Day New York, Phil Donahue, Paula Zahn, Sally, Geraldo, Ricki, even Jerry Springer -- God help us!

KEYNOTE SPEECHES, SATELLITE MEDIA TOURS, SPOKESPERSON, MODERATOR WORK

School Library Media Specialists (Albany '10); Canadian Assistant Heads / SEAL (Montreal '10); ASJA (Moving into Fiction '10, many other talks); PRCH Benefit Moderator, Sense and Sexuality (New York Historical Society, '09); Scientific Committee and Speaker, XIV Susanne Hubner International Seminar "Finding Your Voice" (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain, '07); Many book tours; Keynote at "Today's Girl in Tomorrow's World" (Nashville, '06); Keynote at the Girl Scout "Healthy Girls, Healthy Lives" Symposium (San Diego, '05); Moderator for "Teens, Stress and Drugs" Roundtables presented by National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign '04 in NY and LA; Spokesperson for MSN '03, '06 (Maloney & Fox); I-Zone '02 (Paine PR); Playtex '99 (Weber); Cheer '99, '00; Quaker Chewy '98, '00 (BSMG); Ziploc '92-94 (Golin/Harris); Puerto Rico Tourism '86 (Rowland)

SPECIALTIES AND SCHOOL VISITS

"Dear Abby for girls" (have personally answered eight bazillion of letters and emails)
Fluent French and Spanish; okay Italian
Reviewer of books for Yale Magazine, picturebooks for Redbook, movies for Parents; have published poems for kids (Scholastic) and not-quite-daily haiku on Facebook Page
Judge for Newsweek "My Turn" for teens; annual judge for New York Society Library children's writing

Have spoken to students, parents, and educators in New York City: Columbia School for Journalism; American Museum of Natural History; Marymount Writer's Conference; Girls Inc; Cosmopolitan Club; Teak; Spence; Nightingale; Brearley; Cathedral; Trinity; Town; Rodeph Sholom; Hewitt; Friends Seminary; Grace Church; Marymount School; Ethical; Hunter; School at Columbia; P.S. 75; PS 314; Police Athletic League Harlem Center; Bronx Lab; Brooklyn Tech; The Convent of Mercy (Brooklyn)...

Outside NYC: Montreal (Lower Canada College, The Study, SEAL)--CANADA, Yale University (Master's Tea '02, '10, Women's Center '06, '07, Reunions '03, '08), Greens Farms, Burnham, North Street, Guilford Library, Indian Mountain School (CT), National Coalition of Girls' Schools Annual Conference, Harpeth Hall (TN); Northwestern (IL); Columbus School for Girls, Columbus Academy, and Wellington (OH); Grier (PA); Bush School (WA); Government Hill, Gladys Wood, Birchwood ABC, Atheneum (AK); Univ of Knoxville, Louisville Collegiate (KY); Gordon School and St. Mary Academy at Bay View (RI); Pace (GA); Windham Center School (NH); JLS in Palo Alto (CA); Westfield and Randolph Schools, Wellesley and Yale Clubs (NJ); Twin Lakes, Ponte Vedra Beach Library, Vicar's Landing (FL); Masconomet and Spofford (MA); Greenville, Edgemont, Springhurst, Byram Hills, Rye Library, Colonial, Bronxville, Skidmore, Murray Avenue, Central, Scarsdale Middle School (Westchester and NY) ...