About Melissa Plaut
Born 1975. Melissa Plaut is an American writer.
Mel Plaut is an American writer from New York City.
Plaut ran a blog from 2005 to 2008 called "New York Hack" about her career as a New York City taxi driver. In 2007, writing as Melissa, their book Hack: How I Stopped Worrying About What to Do with My Life and Started Driving a Yellow Cab was published by Villard. At the time of publication, women made up only about 200 of the 40,000 cab drivers in NYC. the University of New Mexico (BA, 1997) and City University of New York-Hunter College (MUP).
In 2016, Plaut was featured in the HBO documentary Suited, produced by Lena Dunham. In 2017, Plaut married Katherine Anania and in 2019, published an essay in HuffPost about moving to rural Georgia and discovering Southern queer gun groups.
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American blogger
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Melissa Plaut was born in 1975.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Melissa Plaut. https://biography.guide/melissa-plaut/
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