Lisa Birnbach

Lisa R. Birnbach (born 1957/1958) is an author best known for co-authoring The Official Preppy Handbook, which spent 38 weeks at number one on the New York Times best-seller list in 1980. on the Upper East Side of New York, the daughter of Naomi (née Salit) and Maks Birnbach. Her father immigrated from Germany to Mandatory Palestine prior to World War II where he was a member of the Irgun and then later immigrated to the United States where he worked as a diamond importer; her mother worked for the Jewish Museum.

Birnbach worked as a technical consultant on the movie Dead Poets Society. She has co–hosted Good Night America and was a correspondent on The Early Show, hosting the segment, "Yikes! I'm a Grownup!" She is co–creator and co–host of ABC's Zero Hour, co–writer of the off–Broadway revue, Loose Lips, and until 2007, she hosted the comedy radio program, The Lisa Birnbach Show. She appeared on the Colbert Report on 13 September 2010.

In 2022, Lisa Birnbach appeared in the Netflix docu-series The Andy Warhol Diaries, in which she retroactively criticized The Official Preppy Handbook for passages encouraging gender discrimination and homophobia. In her interview in the series, Birnbach noted that two of the contributors to the book were gay men.

Personal life Birnbach resides in Manhattan. known for the production of Jakob the Liar and Dead Poets Society. Haft and Birnbach have since divorced. On political grounds, Birnbach also criticized President Trump and his political allies such as Mark Meadows and William Barr on her official social media.

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