Penelope Franklin

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Penelope Franklin is a versatile editor and writer with over 25 years of publishing experience. She has been associated with such major publishers as Reader's Digest Books, Columbia University, the United Nations, Oxford University Press, American Heritage magazine and Current Biography magazine. As a consultant to UNICEF, she assisted writers around the world who used English as a second language. She works with first-time authors, as well as established ones, with an emphasis on developing each client’s unique voice. First-person writings are among her specialties.

She founded the critically-acclaimed American Women's Diary Series (Artemis Books), and is the author of Private Pages: Diaries of American Women (Ballantine Books). She also has taught journal-writing workshops, coached memoir writers, and helped families create private, illustrated personal histories.

Penelope wrote The Allergic Gourmet column for the online Food Syndicate, and the Food Maven column for Hamptons Magazine. She is the co-author of several Mapguides to international cities (Michael Brein Publications) and was a founding editor of the bestselling Compleat Traveler series (Artemis Books). She has written feature stories and humorous essays for many publications, and articles for the United Nations on international subjects, including the rights of women and children, art and culture, and workplace and management issues.

Penelope studied at the Publishing Institute of New York University and is a graduate of Columbia University. Her services include manuscript evaluation; developmental, line and substantive editing; rewriting; ghostwriting and co-authorship; and production of personal histories. She is also a skilled writing coach and does copywriting for advertisements, brochures and other promotional materials.

Penelope Franklin’s work has been praised in The New York Times Book Review, Book-of-the-Month Club News, the Christian Science Monitor, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Sun-Times, among other publications.