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Rachel Friedman is the author of The Good Girl’s Guide to Getting Lost: A Memoir of Three Continents, Two Friends, and One Unexpected Adventure (Bantam, 2011). It was chosen as a Target Breakout Book and selected by Goodreads’ readers as one of the best travel books of 2011. Buy TGGGTGL!
Rachel’s second book, And Then We Grew Up: On Creativity, Potential, and the Imperfect Art of Adulthood, published by Penguin Books. It received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and was named one of their Best Books of 2019. Buy ATWGU!
Rachel’s essays and articles have appeared in The Best Women’s Travel Writing, The McSweeney’s Book of Politics and Musicals, The New York Times, Vox, Creative Nonfiction, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among others.
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (BA, MA) and the creative nonfiction program at Rutgers-Newark (MFA), she has taught literature, journalism, and writing at Columbia University, New York University, and John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Recent interviews: The Limit Does Not Exist, Deviate with Rolf Potts, The Unmistakable Creative, The Trip That Changed Me, Interlochen, Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books, Get The Funk Out, All Sides with Ann Fisher, This is the Author with PRH.
Meet some of the people interviewed in the book!