Danielle Friedman is an award-winning journalist who specializes in telling stories at the intersection of health, gender, and culture. Her first book, Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World, was published by Putnam Books (Penguin Random House) in the US and Icon Books in the UK in January 2022. It was selected as a New Yorker, Financial Times, and Amazon Best Book of the Year.
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Danielle contributes regularly to The New York Times Well section, where she often explores the connection between movement and mental health. Her writing has also appeared in Vogue, The Cut, Romper, Glamour, Harper's Bazaar, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, NBC News, InStyle, Health, and other publications. She has appeared as a guest expert on dozens of podcasts and public radio programs.
From 2014 through 2016, Danielle launched and ran Fusion’s Sex+Life vertical, growing it to become the site's most popular section. Previously, she worked as a senior editor at NBCNews.com, where she ran the site's front page and broke the viral story that Facebook and Apple had begun to pay for female employees to freeze their eggs. The feature won the 2015 Gracie Award for best digital news story and generated commentary in more than forty outlets. Before that, she worked as a senior editor at The Daily Beast, where she served as deputy to the executive editor, oversaw health and lifestyle coverage, and co-ran live coverage of Tina Brown’s Women in the World Summit. She began her career as a nonfiction book editor at the Penguin imprints Hudson Street Press and Plume, where she acquired and edited health, culture, humor, and memoir titles.
She has also worked as a freelance development editor at Amazon Original Stories, where she edited novella-length nonfiction. In 2017, she co-produced the Fusion TV docuseries Sex.Right.Now., which was nominated for a Peabody Award.
Danielle holds a B.A. in English from Duke University and a M.S. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Originally from Atlanta, she now lives in New York City with her husband, NBC News reporter Daniel Arkin, and their two sons.
She is represented by Allison Hunter at Trellis Literary. For North American publicity inquiries about Let’s Get Physical, please contact Nicole Biton at nbiton@penguinrandomhouse.com. For UK-based publicity inquiries, please contact Emily Cary-Elwes at emilycary-elwes@iconbooks.net. For queries about film and television rights, please contact Jason Richman at RichmanJ@unitedtalent.com.
Say hi on Twitter @DFriedmanWrites, on Instagram @DanielleFriedmanWrites, or at daniellefriedman18@gmail.com.
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