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Biography

Weisberger’s mother was a school teacher and her father a department-store-president turned mortgage-broker. She spent her early youth in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, a small town outside Scranton. At age 11, her parents divorced and she and her younger sister, Dana, moved to Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the state, with their mother.

In 1995, she graduated from Allentown’s Parkland High School. During her time at Parkland, Weisberger was involved in various activities, including intramural sports, some competitive sports, extra projects, and organizations.

Following her graduation from high school, she attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she was an English major and a sorority member of Alpha Chi Omega. She graduated from Cornell in 1999, with a Bachelor’s Degree in English. After college, she traveled as a backpacker through Europe, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Thailand, India, Nepal, and Hong Kong. Returning home, she moved to Manhattan and was hired as Wintour’s assistant at Vogue. After leaving the fashion magazine, she wrote 100-word reviews for Departures Magazine, an American Express publication, before writing her first novel.

Weisberger currently resides in New York City.

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