Lisa Collier Cool
American journalist and author
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Lisa Collier Cool (born July 6, 1952) is an American journalist and author who writes on health-related topics.
Lisa Collier Cool | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 6, 1952 |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Website | www |
Education
Born Lisa Collier, Cool began collegiate studies in the early 1970s at Shimer College. She later transferred to Columbia University in New York, where she graduated in 1975.[1]
Career
Cool worked as a literary agent[2] prior to becoming a full-time freelance, magazine article writer in 1984.[3] Several of her subsequent books drew on her insights as an agent.[4] She has also written for the AP, Glamour, Oprah Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Harper's Bazaar, Reader’s Digest, Essence, Prevention and Writer's Digest.[5][6]
In 1997, Cool co-wrote the book Bad Boys: Why We Love Them, How to Live With Them, and When to Leave Them with Carole Lieberman. The book has since been translated into several languages.[7] The 2001 book Beware the Night, written by Cool and New York City police officer Ralph Sarchie, was adapted as the motion picture Deliver Us from Evil.[8] In 2014, Cool co-wrote the book Beat the Heart Attack Gene: The Revolutionary Plan to Prevent Heart Disease, Stroke, and Diabetes with Bradley Bale and Amy Doneen.[9]
She is a regular contributor to Yahoo Health, WebMD[10] and numerous other online and print magazines.
From 2003 to 2005, she served as president of American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA).
Awards
Cool received a National Magazine Award for Personal Service in 1989 for an article in Good Housekeeping titled "The Preventable Cancer".[11][12] She received an Outstanding Service Award from ASJA in 2012,[13] and is a three-time winner of that organization's June Roth Medical Journalism Award in 2007,[14][15] 2003[15][16] and in 1996.[15] Other awards include ASJA's Donald Robinson Investigative Journalism Award in 1997[15] and its Outstanding Article Award in 2001.[15] She was recognized particularly for her work on fundraising and supporting the ASJA's Writers Emergency Assistance Fund,[13] a charity of which she served as chair and a Trustee from 2006 to 2016.[17]
Personal life
Works
Non-fiction:
- How to Sell Every Magazine Article You Write (1986), writing ISBN 9780898792362
- How to Write Irresistible Query Letters (1987), writing ISBN 9780898792591
- How to Give Good Phone: Telephone Techniques to Increase Your Power, Profits and Performance (1988), guide ISBN 1556110502
- Bad Boys: How We Love Them, How to Live with Them, When to Leave Them (1997), with Carole Lieberman, self-help ISBN 9780525941163
- Beware the Night: A New York City Cop Investigates the Supernatural (2001), with Ralph Sarchie, true events ISBN 0312977379
- Beat the Heart Attack Gene: The Revolutionary Plan to Prevent Heart Disease, Stroke, and Diabetes (2013), with Bradley Bale and Amy Doneen, health ISBN 9781118454299
- Healthy Heart, Healthy Brain: The Personalized Path to Protect Your Memory, Prevent Heart Attacks and Strokes, and Avoid Chronic Illness (2022), with Bradley Bale and Amy Doneen, health ISBN 9781549189203
