16 Facts About Cynthia Heimel

Cynthia Heimel was an American feminist humorist writer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Cynthia Heimel was a columnist and foremost the author of satirical books known for their unusual titles, aimed at a female readership, as well as a playwright and television writer.

Cynthia Heimel wrote for the alternative magazine Distant Drummer for two years in Philadelphia in the late 1960s.

Cynthia Heimel briefly worked as a secretary and an actress.

Cynthia Heimel joined The SoHo Weekly News as an advertising assistant, then began publishing articles with a piece on an anarchist conference in New York City.

Cynthia Heimel became Features Editor, Centerfold Editor and a star features writer, worked briefly at Penthouse Magazine, returned to SWN, then left in 1980 to work at New York magazine and then New York Daily News.

Cynthia Heimel continued to produce books based on her columns into the mid 1990s, while becoming a writer for television with Kate and Allie, then moving to Hollywood, where she worked on Dear John.

Cynthia Heimel is an urban romantic with a scathing X-ray vision that penetrates her most deeply cherished fantasies.

Cynthia Heimel's column was ended around 2000 when the editors of Playboy expressed concern that Heimel's feminist attitudes would put off male readers.

Cynthia Heimel was raised in Overbrook Park, Philadelphia; her mother was a secretary and her father was a pharmacist.

Cynthia Heimel left home at 17 and lived in Center City.

Cynthia Heimel worked as an artist's model before she found work at Philadelphia's Distant Drummer weekly newspaper.

Cynthia Heimel met and married radio announcer and painter Steve Heimel, and they had a son, Brodie, in 1970.

Cynthia Heimel separated from her husband after 18 months when he found work in Houston and she moved to England.

Cynthia Heimel later lived in Oakland CA, Coudersport PA and Los Angeles, and married and divorced Abe Opincar.

Cynthia Heimel died at age 70 on February 25,2018 in Los Angeles.