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The Chief Wordworker |
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According to all available indices, I was born with a love of words and names. I began writing stories as soon as I could hold a pencil, and later wrote for my junior-high and high-school newspapers. My B.A., from UC Berkeley, is in comparative literature; after a two-year expatriate stint in Israel, I returned to Berkeley to earn a masters degree in journalism and to embark on a career as a newspaper and magazine editor and writer. An article I wrote for New West magazine, about tampons and toxic-shock syndrome, was nominated for a National Magazine Award; the article grew into my first book, Everything You Must Know About Tampons. | |
| Several years later I made the leap from journalism to marketing. As editorial director at Banana Republic I hired, trained, and directed a staff of eight writer-editors who created all catalogs, advertising, and collateral. The company’s innovative catalogs (long gone, alas) won many awards and the admiration of customers around the world. | |||
Since 1988 I’ve been an independent copywriter, creative consultant, and name developer. I’m a relatively recent arrival in the blogosphere, where I write about naming and writing at Away With Words. I ’m also a regular contributor to Visual Thesaurus. When I’m not working with words, I travel across the bay to the Dolphin Club, where I swim and kayak in wordless appreciation of my surroundings. |
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