BIO

While attending Cornell University, Deborah Schoeneman kicked off her journalism career interning for The Village Voice and Paper magazine.  Her first job was being the assistant to Peter Kaplan, then the Editor in Chief of the New York Observer, where she wrote features and the real estate column. In 2001, she wrote perhaps her most emailed story about Googling guys before she went on dates with them. The New York Times Magazine’s “On Language” column gave her credit for coining the verb “To Google,” and the Google founders flew to N.Y.C. to fete her for it. Alas, she walked away with some Google baseball caps but no stock options. Next she became a Staff Writer for the features section of the New York Post and managed to write a story about a Hasidic Jewish workout video with the memorable headline “Muscle Tov.” After that, she joined New York magazine as a Contributing Editor, where she wrote the “Intelligencer” column, the real estate column and features and edited the party pictures page for four years, until she left to write a novel, “4% Famous,” which was published by Random House in 2006. DKNY sponsored the multi-city national book tour. (During this time she appeared on many TV shows as an alleged pop culture expert). She has also been a Contributing Editor at Conde Nast Portfolio and the Editor in Chief of Hampton Style magazine. Her freelance articles have appeared in the New York Times Sunday Styles section, the Wall Street Journal, V magazine, Angeleno and C magazine, where she’s a Contributing Writer. She’s also a Contributing Editor for the Huffington Post’s LA page, which she helped launch. She currently lives in LA, where she has a great view of the Hollywood sign and writes scripts, like everyone else.