Aileen Weintraub, Author and Editor

Aileen Weintraub is an award-winning author, journalist, and editor whose latest book is Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir, about a Brooklyn girl who moves to the country, gets married, and finds herself living in a rickety farmhouse, knocked up, and faced with the prospect of five months of bed rest. What ensues is a laugh-out-loud, emotionally charged story of one woman’s unexpected path to authenticity. The Erma Bombeck Workshop named Aileen Humor Writer of the Month for Knocked Down and Publishers Weekly says, “…there’s beauty on every page.”

Aileen is also the author of the middle-grade social justice book WE GOT GAME! 35 Female Athletes Who Changed the World, which was honored as A Mighty Girl’s Best Book of the Year. Her best-selling Never Too Young: 50 Unstoppable Kids Who Made a Difference won a Parents’ Choice Award. Working in collaboration with the American Museum of Natural History, Secrets of the American Museum of Natural History released in 2019.

She has also written numerous essays and articles for The Washington Post, HuffPost, NBC, AARP, Glamour, and other publications. Her essay “This Is What No One Tells Women About What Happens to Your Body in Your 40s,” in HuffPost garnered over 2 million hits and was discussed on The View.

Inspired by the athletes in WE GOT GAME! Aileen has taken up boxing. She lives in New York with her family, and her dog Monte, who sits beside her while she writes. She pronounces her name with a long A, like the first letter of the alphabet.

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