Everyone Worth Knowing

Lauren Weisberger born March 28, 1977, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She moved to Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the sixth grade and graduated from Parkland High School in 1995. Trading one small town for an even colder one, she matriculated at Cornell University and spent four delightful years engaged in a blurry mix of fraternity parties, creative writing courses, library stacks, Collegetown bars, and snow. After graduating in 1999 with a BA in English, Lauren moved home for the summer to save money and then traveled all over Europe, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Thailand, India, Nepal, and Hong Kong. She carried a single small backpack and stayed in questionable places, further enriching my authentic cultural experiences by eating only Nutella and drinking Coca-Cola Light. Her first job after returning to the U.S. and moving to Manhattan was the Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief of Vogue, Anna Wintour. Lauren became proficient in the language of stilettos and Starbucks before moving to Departures magazine, where she wrote 100-word reviews by day and took writing classes at night. The Devil Wears Prada, begun at the Writer's Voice, was published in April 2003, and the book spent a total of a year on The New York Times Bestseller List. It was sold in different foreign countries and made into a major motion picture by Fox 2000 starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. Weisberger's novels, Everyone Worth Knowing and Chasing Harry Winston were both New York Times bestsellers.