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Lisa Collier Cool | |
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| Born | 6 July 1952 (age 71) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Website | https://www.lisacolliercool.com/ |
Lisa Collier Cool (6 July 1952) is an American journalist and author who writes on health-related topics.
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Lisa Collier Cool | |
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| Born | 6 July 1952 (age 71) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Website | https://www.lisacolliercool.com/ |
Lisa Collier Cool (6 July 1952) is an American journalist and author who writes on health-related topics.
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]
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).
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]
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