Elinor Nauen
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JournalismProfessional bioElinor Nauen is experienced and proficient in both traditional and new media as a writer and editor.
She has worked in magazine and book publishing for 25 years, starting as a copy editor at Woman’s World Weekly, and along the way serving as a fiction, travel and senior features editor for First and Woman’s World. She has edited books by Senator George Mitchell, Paul Krassner and Danny Schechter, among others, and edited for Seven Stories, Kodansha and other presses. She served as acting editor-in-chief of MediZine Healthy Living, special health sections editor for Newsweek and executive editor of Gender & Health, a publication of the Partnership for Women’s Health at Columbia University. Elinor has written on health topics for Family Circle, Fitness, Self, TheBody.com, InsideMS, The Saturday Evening Post and Health. She has written on automobiles and the driving experience for WE, AARP’s My Generation (where she was the automotive columnist), AARP.org, Cachet, Health, New American Writing and many other publications; and on sports topics for Cult Baseball Players, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Aethlon, Sports Illustrated for Women, Nine, America, Up Late: American Poetry Since 1970, National Endowment for the Humanities Magazine, Hollywood Review, American Book Review and many other magazines and anthologies. She has also published in such magazines as Organic Style, Hallmark and Weight Watchers. Her books include CARS & Other Poems, American Guys and, as editor, Ladies, Start Your Engines: Women writers on cars & the road (Faber & Faber, 1997) and Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend: Women writers on baseball (Faber & Faber, 1994).  Me, Laura Bush & my sister Varda at a White House reception in February 2008 for the Heart Truth. Wearing red was de rigeur. Note Varda pretending to tower over me. |
Recent articlesThe Future Is NowThe inventor tinkering in a garage and coming up with a better mousetrap is a cherished American image. These days, that tinkering is likely to take place at a sophisticated computer or high-powered microscope. But no matter how they do their work, scientists continue to come up with ingenious and useful advances. Here are a few gee-whiz breakthroughs that are already helping us, or soon will.
Whenever I pause to ogle a bike, someone—not necessarily the owner—strikes up a conversation. One who does is Jim Duke, 51. He’s an anesthesiologist from Denver, here with his wife Renée, 50. “Nobody has a frown here,” Jim says. “It’s a congenial crowd. We meet people from everywhere, with motorcycling as a common denominator.” They took up biking five years ago. “To be out on the road in a car is like watching a movie,” he says. “On a bike, you’re in the movie. Moment to moment, it’s constantly changing. In a car, it’s about the destination. On a bike, the destination is icing on the cake; it’s the ride.”
.... I'm a sucker for weddings. I mean, I love weddings and I always cry. I cried when Tiny Tim married Miss Vicki on TV in 1969, and I've blubbered at every ceremony since. So when I found out that dozens of couples get married at the rally each year, I couldn't wait to crash, ahem, attend one. I quickly learned from one of Sturgis' non-denominational ministers, Joan Pillen, that those 50+ are more likely to tie the knot than kids during the rally. The town has no waiting period; same-day marriages are legal. After more than 25 years and 25 million deaths, the world has yet to realize that HIV isn't just a man's problem. Although it has escaped the notice of most media -- and even many in the health care and health policy fields -- HIV has quietly become the third most-deadly disease for women in the United States, behind only cancer and heart disease. It's also the leading cause of death for African-American women between the ages of 25 and 34. |
