Lisa Birnbach's father immigrated from Germany to Mandatory Palestine prior to World War II where he was a member of the Irgun and then later immigrated to the United States where he worked as a diamond importer; her mother worked for the Jewish Museum.
11 Facts About Lisa Birnbach
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Lisa Birnbach's maternal grandfather, Norman Salit, was a rabbi and served as president of the Synagogue Council of America.
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Lisa Birnbach attended the Birch Wathen Lenox School from 1962 to 1971 and the Riverdale Country School.
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Lisa Birnbach went on to study at Barnard College of Columbia University for her first year, before transferring to Brown University where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors in Semiotics in 1978.
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From April 1979, Lisa Birnbach worked as a staff writer at The Village Voice, where she co-wrote the Scenes column.
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Since The Official Preppy Handbook Lisa Birnbach has written an additional 15 books, for newspapers such as the New York Times, and for magazines such as Glamour, Parade, Rolling Stone, and TV Guide.
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Lisa Birnbach worked as a technical consultant on the movie Dead Poets Society.
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Lisa Birnbach appeared on the Colbert Report on 13 September 2010.
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In 2022, Lisa Birnbach appeared in the Netflix docu-series The Andy Warhol Diaries, in which she retroactively criticized The Official Preppy Handbook for passages encouraging gender discrimination and homophobia.
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Lisa Birnbach was married to film producer Steven Haft known for the production of Jakob the Liar and Dead Poets Society.
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On political grounds, Lisa Birnbach criticized former President Trump and his political allies such as Mark Meadows and William Barr on her official social media.