Lisa Birnbach children: How many children does Lisa Birnbach have

Lisa R. Birnbach was born in 1957/1958 and is an author best known for co-authoring The Official Preppy Handbook, which spent 38 weeks at number one on the New York Times bestseller list in 1980.

She attended the Birch Wathen Lenox School from 1962 to 1971 and the Riverdale Country School (class of 1974). She went on to study at Barnard College of Columbia University for her first year, before transferring to Brown University where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors in Semiotics in 1978.

After graduation, Birnbach toured Europe and worked for an advertising agency. From April 1979, Birnbach worked as a staff writer at The Village Voice, where she co-wrote the Scenes column.

Since The Official Preppy Handbook Lisa has written an additional 15 books, for newspapers such as the New York Times, and for magazines such as Glamour, Parade, Rolling Stone, and TV Guide. She was the deputy editor of Spy magazine.

Birnbach worked as a technical consultant on the movie Dead Poets Society. She has co–hosted Good Night America and was a correspondent on The Early Show, hosting the segment, “Yikes! I’m a Grownup!” She is co–creator, and co–host of ABC’s Zero Hour, co–writer of the off–Broadway revue, Loose Lips, and until 2007, she hosted the comedy radio program, The Lisa Birnbach Show.

In 2022, Lisa Birnbach appeared in the Netflix docu-series The Andy Warhol Diaries, in which she retroactively criticized The Official Preppy Handbook for passages encouraging gender discrimination and homophobia.

In her interview in the series, Birnbach noted that two of the contributors to the book were gay men.

Lisa Birnbach’s children: How many children does Lisa Birnbach have

Lisa Birnbach is a contributing editor at Parade magazine and the author of more than 20 books, including Lisa Birnbach’s College Book. She lives in New York with her three children.