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Lisa Regine Birnbach
Born1957 or 1958 (age 65–66)
New York City, New York, U.S.
EducationColumbia University
Brown University (BA)
SpouseSteven Haft (divorced)
Children3
RelativesNorman Salit (grandfather)

Lisa R. Birnbach (born 1957/1958)[1] is an author best known for co-authoring The Official Preppy Handbook, which spent 38 weeks at number one on the New York Times best-seller list in 1980.[2][3]

  1. ^ Minzsheimer, Bob (2 September 2010). "Lisa Birnbach and Chip Kidd". USA Today. Birnbach, 52, editor and co-author...
  2. ^ Maslin, Janet (30 August 2010). "BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Preppily Perplexed? A New Guidebook". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference rhsb was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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Lisa R. Birnbach (born 1957/1958) is an author best known for co-authoring The Official Preppy Handbook, which spent 38 weeks at number one on the New...

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The Official Preppy Handbook

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satirical reference guide edited by Lisa Birnbach and written by Jonathan Roberts, Carol McD. Wallace, Mason Wiley, and Birnbach. It discusses an aspect of North...

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Steven Haft

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co-founder of the original Earth Day in 1970. He is divorced from the author Lisa Birnbach; they have three children. He attended the Modern Orthodox Jewish synagogue...

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Patricia Marx

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(with Lisa Birnbach and Ann Hodgman, and David Owen), (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 1997) 1,003 Great Things about Kids, (with Lisa Birnbach and Ann...

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Kurt Andersen

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based on an off-Broadway play of the same name that he created with Lisa Birnbach and Jamie Malanowski. Along with Carter and George Kalogerakis, Andersen...

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Chip Kidd

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graphic designer Chip Kidd and after.” Kidd has also worked with writer Lisa Birnbach on True Prep, a follow-up to her 1980 book The Official Preppy Handbook...

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Philadelphia Main Line

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Martin Bobos in Paradise, by David Brooks Official Preppy Handbook, by Lisa Birnbach The Pretty Little Liars series, by Sara Shepard, which uses the fictional...

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Upturned collar

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1980, Lisa Birnbach published The Official Preppy Handbook, in which she extolled the "virtues of the upturned collar". According to Ms. Birnbach, rather...

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Norman Salit

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died on July 21, 1960, in New York City. His granddaughter is author Lisa Birnbach (married to film producer Steven Haft). "Guide to the Norman Salit (1896-1960)...

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Preppy

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these old Northeastern schools in the early to mid-twentieth century. Lisa Birnbach's 1980 book The Official Preppy Handbook was written to poke fun at the...

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Cranbrook Schools

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portrayed in Edmund White´s autobiographical novel A Boy's Own Story. Lisa Birnbach makes note of Cranbrook in The Official Preppy Handbook and True Prep:...

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Lilly Pulitzer

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aged 81, Pulitzer Rousseau died at her home in Palm Beach, Florida. Lisa Birnbach's tongue-in-cheek guides, The Official Preppy Handbook and its sequel...

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List of The New Yorker contributors

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illustrator, 1993–2014 Kenneth Bird (pseudonym: Fougasse) – cartoonist, 1925 Lisa Birnbach – humorist, 2002–2014 Abe Birnbaum – illustrator Elizabeth Bishop –...

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List of Riverdale Country School alumni

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(1939–2015), historian Cliff Bayer (born 1977), Olympic foil fencer Lisa Birnbach (born 1956, class of 1974), author of The Official Preppy Handbook Richard...

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Sarah Krasnostein

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2023. "The Believer". "Briefly Noted". The New Yorker. 7 April 2022. Lisa Birnbach (11 March 2022). "Compassionate portraits of people with faith — in...

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1930

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Practices. University of Toronto Press. p. 222. ISBN 978-0-8020-8994-6. Lisa Birnbach; Chip Kidd (September 7, 2010). True Prep: It's a Whole New Old World...

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The New Girls

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around an outsider entering into an elite boarding school environment. Lisa Birnbach, in a follow-up to The Official Preppy Handbook, includes The New Girls...

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List of humor magazines

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1986–1998 Kurt Andersen, Graydon Carter, Patricia Marx, Mark O'Donnell, Lisa Birnbach, Larissa MacFarquhar, Louis Theroux, Paul Simms, Paul Rudnick, Walter...

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List of Brown University alumni

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Bazell (A.B. 1992) – novelist Bill Berkson (1957–1959) – poet and critic Lisa Birnbach (A.B. 1978) – author, The Official Preppy Handbook Kate Bornstein (née...

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Nantucket Reds

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Massachusetts. Nantucket Reds are marketed as "Guaranteed to Fade." Birnbach, Lisa (October 1980). The official preppy handbook. Workman Pub. p. 140....

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