Koppel writes for The New York Times and other publications. She graduated from Barnard College in 2003 with a degree in English Literature and creative writing. Koppel began contributing by reporting to The New York Times Boldface Names celebrity column in 2003.[1]
She has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America and National Public Radio.
Koppel's book The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal was published by HarperCollins on April 1, 2008. The book is about her discovery of a young woman's diary, kept in New York in the 1930s, and its return to Florence Wolfson Howitt, its owner, at age 90. The diary was recovered from a steamer trunk found in a dumpster outside of Koppel's apartment building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The non-fiction book is based on Koppel's New York Times City section cover story.[2]
Her second book, The Astronaut Wives Club, was published by Grand Central Publishing on June 11, 2013.[3] The book served as the basis for the ABC short-run TV series The Astronaut Wives Club, which premiered in June 2015.[4]
