Carol Weston
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Carol Weston is an American novelist, non-fiction writer, and speaker. The author of twelve books, she has been the "Dear Carol" advice columnist at Girls' Life (Magazine) since 1994.
Biography
Weston's first book, Girltalk: All the Stuff Your Sister Never Told You, now in a fourth edition, has been in print since 1985. It has been translated into several languages, including Mandarin, Cantonese, Russian, Vietnamese, and Polish. Her first novel, The Diary of Melanie Martin, also came out in Italian and Czech, and became a four-book series for children. It features Melanie and her brother, Matt the Brat, and their travels in Italy, Holland, Spain and New York.
Weston has appeared on The Today Show, The View, 48 Hours, Oprah, and other shows and has given talks at scores of schools around the country and in Canada. She is a judge of a Young Adult Writing Contest at the New York Society Library and will be teaching writing at Middlebury College in Spring 2013. Her online advice can be found at Howdini and on her YouTube Channel.
At Yale University, Weston majored in French and Spanish Comparative Literature, and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She has her Masters in Spanish from Middlebury College. Weston also studied at Byram Hills High School in Armonk, New York and in Rennes, France, with School Year Abroad.