Ellyn Spragins

Ellyn Spragins authored WHAT I KNOW NOW Letters To My Younger Self™, a New York Times bestseller and Books For A Better Life finalist which was published by Broadway Doubleday in April 2006. The next book in the WHAT I KNOW NOW series, IF I’D KNOWN THEN Women In Their 20s and 30s Write Letters To Their Younger Selves, will be published in May 2008 by Da Capo Press.

Until recently she was Editor-At-Large at Fortune Small Business a columnist at The New York Times, writing Love & Money for the Sunday business section. Previously, she was Vice President of Editorial Development at Oxygen Media, focusing on Oxygen Web sites’ content, search, and editorial infrastructure.

Spragins was a contributing editor to Newsweek magazine from 1994 to 1999, where she wrote two of the magazine’s monthly sections: “Focus: On Your Money” and “Focus: On Your Health.” While at Newsweek, she won the National Press Club’s Consumer Journalism Award in 1997 and the Clarion Award in 1998. In 1997, she authored Choosing and Using an HMO (Bloomberg Press).

Spragins has been an editor at Smart Money, Inc., and Business Week and a reporter at Forbes. Her articles have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Working Woman, Bloomberg Personal, Worth, The New York Times Sunday Magazine and Town & Country. She has also made numerous television and radio appearances.

Spragins graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in English and economics in 1977 from Barnard College, which awarded her the Estelle M. Allison Prize for Excellence in Literature.