Lisa Collier Cool

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Lisa Collier Cool
BornJuly 6, 1952
Occupation Journalist
Website https://www.lisacolliercool.com/
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Lisa Collier Cool (born July 6, 1952) is an American journalist and author who writes on health-related topics.

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Education

Born Lisa Collier, Cool began collegiate studies in the early 1970s at Shimer College. She later transferred to Columbia University in New York, where she graduated in 1975. [1]

Career

Cool worked as a literary agent [2] prior to becoming a full-time freelance, magazine article writer in 1984. [3] Several of her subsequent books drew on her insights as an agent. [4] She has also written for the AP, Glamour, Oprah Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Harper's Bazaar, Reader’s Digest, Essence, Prevention and Writer's Digest. [5] [6]

In 1997, Cool co-wrote the book Bad Boys: Why We Love Them, How to Live With Them, and When to Leave Them with Carole Lieberman. The book has since been translated into several languages. [7] The 2001 book Beware the Night , written by Cool and New York City police officer Ralph Sarchie, was adapted as the motion picture Deliver Us from Evil . [8] In 2014, Cool co-wrote the book Beat the Heart Attack Gene: The Revolutionary Plan to Prevent Heart Disease, Stroke, and Diabetes with Bradley Bale and Amy Doneen. [9]

She is a regular contributor to Yahoo Health, WebMD [10] and numerous other online and print magazines.

From 2003 to 2005, she served as president of American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA).

Awards

Cool received a National Magazine Award for Personal Service in 1989 for an article in Good Housekeeping titled "The Preventable Cancer". [11] [12] She received an Outstanding Service Award from ASJA in 2012, [13] and is a three-time winner of that organization's June Roth Medical Journalism Award in 2007, [14] [15] 2003 [15] [16] and in 1996. [15] Other awards include ASJA's Donald Robinson Investigative Journalism Award in 1997 [15] and its Outstanding Article Award in 2001. [15] She was recognized particularly for her work on fundraising and supporting the ASJA's Writers Emergency Assistance Fund, [13] a charity of which she served as chair and a Trustee from 2006 to 2016. [17]

Personal life

Cool and her husband have three children. [2] [3]

Works

Non-fiction:

References

  1. ↑ Lisa Collier Cool. "Lisa Collier Cool". LinkedIn. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
  2. 1 2 Lisa Collier Cool. "Lisa Collier Cool's Bio". Archived from the original on July 2, 2013. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
  3. 1 2 Jenny Cromie (March 23, 2009). "Successful Freelancer: Lisa Collier Cool" . Retrieved June 24, 2013.
  4. ↑ Lisa Collier Cool (1988). How to Sell Every Magazine Article You Write. Writer's Digest Books. p. 218. ISBN   0898793556.
  5. ↑ Skb (November 11, 2009). "Casting Couch Radio: Show Notes - Freelance Writer Lisa Collier Cool". Casting Couch Radio. Retrieved January 18, 2019.
  6. ↑ "Day in Health | Yahoo! Health". archive.li. June 29, 2013. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
  7. ↑ "Cool, Lisa Collier 1952-". Worldcat Identities. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
  8. ↑ "Jerry Bruckheimer Takes on Beware the Night". Comingsoon.net. November 21, 2012. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
  9. ↑ Bale, Bradley; Doneen, Amy; Cool, Lisa Collier (2014). Beat the Heart Attack Gene. Wiley. ISBN   9781118454299. OCLC   999478263.
  10. ↑ Cool, Lisa Collier. "Are Male and Female Brains Different?". WebMD. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
  11. ↑ Lisa Collier Cool. "Awards". Archived from the original on October 29, 2012. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
  12. ↑ "National Magazine Awards: Winners & Finalists". American Society of Magazine Editors. Archived from the original on October 10, 2018. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
  13. 1 2 "ASJA Writing Awards Recipients". American Society of Journalists and Authors. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
  14. ↑ "2007-04-20: ASJA Announces 2007 Award Winners". June 7, 2017. Archived from the original on June 7, 2017. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
  15. 1 2 3 4 5 "American Society of Journalists and Authors". asja.org. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
  16. ↑ "2003-05-09: ASJA Presents 2003 Writing Awards". June 12, 2017. Archived from the original on June 12, 2017. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
  17. ↑ "Lisa Collier Cool".
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