editing, ghost writing, multi media event production and on-line marketing.
Rachel Lehmann-Haupt (www.lehmannhaupt,com), a Manhattan and Sausalito- based author and editor, is available for editorial consulting for non-fiction books and articles in proposal or under contract. Her expertise is social trends, media, business, gender politics and the influence of science and technology on culture. She grew up in New York in a publishing family and is well connected in both book publishing and magazines. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, New York, Vogue, O magazine, Self, Glamour, Outside, Wired, The New York Observer, US News and World Report, Salon.com, Business Week, and MSN Money. Book editing projects have included the bestselling book, The Female Brain, by Louanne Brizendine (Random House, 2007). Rachel has also served as a ghost writer, senior editor at Folio magazine and executive editor of Plum magazine, the first magazine devoted to motherhood over the age of 35. In these positions, she developed and edited stories in print and for the web.
Her first book, In Her Own Sweet Time: Unexpected Adventures in Finding Love, Commitment and Motherhood, was published in The United States, England, and The Netherlands. First and second serial excerpts were published in Newsweek, The London Times, The Daily Mail, and The Irish Independent. Lehmann-Haupt appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America and was interviewed on NPR’s Talk of the Nation. The book received positive reviews in both The New York Times and The Washington Post, where the reviewer wrote, “Lehmann-Haupt is a skilled, empathetic writer and an excellent researcher, alert to the absurdities and ethical ambiguities of her quest, and she has written a valuable guide.”
She graduated with high honors in English Literature from Kenyon College and attended The Graduate School of Journalism at The University of California at Berkeley. While at UC Berkeley she was an assistant editor to Clay Felker, the founder of New York magazine at The Felker Magazine Center.
