Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Taffy Brodesser-Akner is an American journalist and author who has contributed to GQ and The New York Times, where she is now a staff writer. Her celebrity profiles have won her the New York Press Club Award and the Mirror Award. She is the author of the novels Long Island Compromise and Fleishman Is in Trouble, the second of which, a story about a newly divorced doctor finding his way through dating in New York, was adapted into a seven-time Emmy-nominated miniseries that she also wrote.