Abby Ellin
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Abby Ellin

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Abby Ellin is an award-winning journalist and the author of "Duped: Double Lives, False Identities and the Con Man I Almost Married" and "Teenage Waistland: A Former Fat Kid Weighs In On Living Large, Losing Weight and How Parents Can (and Can't) Help." She is also the host and an Executive Producer on season two of of the podcast "Impostors: The Commander." She is also a producer/reporter on the New York Times Presents documentary "To Live and Die in Alabama," on Hulu/FX. For five years she wrote the "Preludes" column about young people and money for the Sunday Money and Business section of the New York Times. She is also a regular contributor to the Health, Style, Business and Education sections of the New York Times. Her work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, New York, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Psychology Today, Time, Newsweek, the Village Voice, the Boston Phoenix, Salon, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and Spy (RIP). She has been a resident at the Yaddo Corporation and Wildacres Retreat in North Carolina, and has two useless Masters Degrees: an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College and a master’s degree in international public policy from Johns Hopkins University. As of this writing, her greatest accomplishments are learning to play the cello at age 35, summiting Kilimanjaro (with a broken wrist in a cast!) and naming "Karamel Sutra" ice cream for Ben and Jerry's.
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    • Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married
    • By: Abby Ellin
    • Narrated by: Therese Plummer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-19
    • Language: English
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    • Compulsive Liars and How They Can Deceive You
    • By: Abby Ellin
    • Narrated by: Therese Plummer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-19
    • Language: English
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