Jennifer Kaufman
Biography
Jennifer Kaufman
Jennifer Kaufman
was a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times for 10 years.
She is a two-time winner of the Penney-Missouri Journalism Award
for Feature Writing and Spot News Reporting.
Ms. Kaufman spent three years as Bureau Chief for Fairchild
Publications, Woman’s Wear Daily and W magazine
in Milan and Rome. Prior to that, she worked for Fairchild
Publications in New York covering business, film and features. She
was formerly a staff reporter for the Baltimore News
American and The Prince George’s County Sentinel
in Bethesda, Maryland.
She has written feature stories for national publications and is
currently a freelance writer living in Los Angeles. Her first
novel, LITERACY AND
LONGING IN LA, was on the LA Times Bestseller List
for 15 weeks and won the 2006 Best Fiction Award from the
California Bookseller’s Association. Her second novel,
A VERSION OF THE
TRUTH, also for Random House was published December
2007.
Ms. Kaufman attended Eastman School of Music and is a graduate of
Barnard College and Columbia University School of Journalism. She
is a flutist and pianist.
Jennifer Kaufman
