Harriet Brown

Harriet Brown has written for the New York Times Magazine, O, Health, Glamour, Vogue, and many other publications. She has covered topics from fat acceptance to forgiveness. A frequent contributor to the Tuesday New York Times science section, she writes about issues that affect the lives of women and children. Her book, "Brave Girl Eating: A Family’s Struggle with Anorexia," recounts her family’s efforts to help their oldest daughter recover from anorexia nervosa. Her latest book is called "Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight--and What We Can Do about It."

Brown is the editor of two anthologies (Feed Me! and Mr. Wrong), and several other nonfiction books, including "The Good-Bye Window: A Year in the Life of a Day-Care Center." Her radio essays can be heard on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and “To the Best of Our Knowledge.” She co-chairs Maudsley Parents, a website of resources for families struggling with eating disorders maudsleyparents.org, and is a member of the Academy for Eating Disorders. Brown is an assistant professor of magazine journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in Syracuse, New York, where she created Project BodyTalk, an audio project that collects commentaries about people’s relationship to food, eating, and their bodies projectbodytalk.com. She lives in central New York with her family.