Lizzie Skurnick

Lizzie Skurnick’s most recent work is The Special Students: My Great-Grandfather at Harvard, His Mysterious Death, and The World of the Talented Tenth, a forthcoming mystery and history of Black scholars in the Ivy Leagues. She is the editor of a recent anthology, Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women, and the author of That Should Be a Word: A Much-Needed Lexicon for the Modern Era, and Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We’ll Never Stop Reading. As the founding editor of Lizzie Skurnick Books, she has reissued dozens of YA classics. She’s a frequent contributor to The New York Times, NPR, PBS, Elle, Jezebel, and many other publications. In another life, she wrote for the Sweet Valley High series. Lizzie lives in Jersey City and teaches at NYU.