Anna David | |
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 David in 2025 | |
| Born | 1970 (age 54–55) [1] |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Trinity College |
| Occupation(s) | Publisher, writer, speaker, television personality, podcaster |
| Website | www |
Anna Benjamin David (born 1970) is an American publisher, author, speaker, podcast host, and television personality. [2]
David was born to Jewish parents. [3] She is a graduate of Trinity College. [4]
David is the author of the novels Party Girl (HarperCollins, 2007), [5] Bought (HarperCollins, 2009), [6] and the non-fiction books Falling For Me (HarperCollins, 2011), [7] Reality Matters (HarperCollins, 2010), [8] True Tales of Lust and Love, How to Get Successful by F*cking Up Your Life and Make Your Mess Your Memoir. Her book By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There, co-written with Tom Sizemore, was a New York Times bestseller. [9]
In 2021, she got the rights to Party Girl back from HarperCollins [10] and relaunched the book under her own publishing imprint. [11] Party Girl is in development as a movie with the producer of Martin Scorsese's The Irishman . [12] In late 2024, David released a revised "PG Version" of Party Girl with much of its explicit content removed, prompting the Wall Street Journal to describe her as, "part of an era of tell-all writers now worried about their children reading their books." [13]
David has been a contributor to The Daily Beast , [14] Details , [15] Maxim , Premiere , Parenting , People , Us Weekly , Time , [16] MindBodyGreen, MarieClaire, BuzzFeed, and Razor. [11]
David's work has appeared in The New York Times , [10] The LA Times , [17] Details, [18] Cosmopolitan , Time, Vice , BuzzFeed, Psychology Today , HuffPost , New York Post , The Huffington Post , [19] Playboy , [20] Redbook , Self , Stuff , TV Guide , Movieline , Women's Health , Esquire UK , Teen Vogue , Variety , Tatler , Emmy, and Salon . [21]
David was one of the main hosts on G4’s Attack of the Show [22] for four years and has been featured on Good Morning America , The Talk , Hannity , Red Eye , [23] Dr. Drew , [24] Jane Velez Mitchell [25] and The Insider [26] as well as on various other programs on Fox News, CTV, MTV News, VH1 and E!.
In 2010, David started speaking at colleges about addiction and recovery. [27] That year, she began delivering the keynote speech “Surviving and Thriving in an Addictive Society” at colleges across the country. [28] In 2017, she gave her 10-minute talk, “How to Wear Your Labels” alongside Tony Robbins at the Genius Network Annual event. [29] In 2018, she spoke at TEDxOhlone, TEDxLosGatos and TedXUniversityofSanDiego. [30]
She speaks at organizations, events and corporations on sharing people story to build their business and legacy. [31]
In 2017, David launched Legacy Launch Pad Publishing, a company that publishes books for entrepreneurs and thought leaders. [2] Legacy Launch Pad has released numerous books that have become Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestsellers. [32]
David hosts a podcast on publishing, which has been named one of the best publishing podcasts by LA Weekly [33] and Feedspot, [34] among many others. [35] The podcast has featured interviews with Chris Voss, [36] Adam Carolla [37] and Jay Abraham [38] David is the book critic for KATU Portland's morning show [39] and writes about literature for Los Angeles Magazine. [40]
In 2025, she founded The Evolution of Publishing Institute [41] , an organization that conducts research on how books create business value, drive thought leadership and generate measurable returns for entrepreneurs and executives.
In 2023, David and her partner James Agnew welcomed a baby via surrogate, a topic she writes about for Los Angeles Magazine. [42] [43]
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