Constance Rosenblum is an American newspaper editor,

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, and author. Her books include ''Gold Digger: The Outrageous Life and Times of Peggy Hopkins Joyce'', which was named an editor's choice by ''

The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issue ...

'', and ''Boulevard of Dreams'', a history of the Grand Concourse. She is the editor of ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

'' City section. She was the editor of the paper's Arts and Leisure section from 1990 to 1997. Rosenblum grew up in

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, and graduated from

Emma Willard School The Emma Willard School, originally called Troy Female Seminary and often referred to simply as Emma, is an independent university-preparatory day and boarding school for young women, located in Troy, New York, on Mount Ida, offering grades 9� ...

and

Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh: ) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of elite, historically women's colleges in the United Sta ...

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''The New York Times'', December 6, 2008

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