Hi! I’m Rachelle (Ruh-SHELL, she/her). I’m a lifestyle writer, bestselling author and editor, focused on style, pop culture and families.
My latest book, The Genius ofJudy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood For All of Us published with Simon & Schuster in July 2024 and it was a USA Today bestseller, as well as a notable nonfiction pick by LibraryReads. Bookpage called it “ground-breaking,” the LA Times called it “lively and important,” and it has been positively reviewed by Kirkus, The Wall Street Journal and The Skimm.
My first book, Women from the Ankle Down: The Story of Shoes and How They Define Us (HarperCollins, 2012) was called “wickedly provocative” by Kirkus, “fleet-footed” by the New York Times, and was named one of Janet Maslin’s top beach reads of Summer 2012.
My second, Brilliance and Fire: A Biography of Diamonds (HarperCollins, 2016) was called “exhilarating” by the Wall Street Journal, and was picked as one of Amazon’s top nonfiction titles of June 2016. It was featured in best-of summer lists at Harper’s Bazaar and The Knot.
These titles have been translated for readers in Eastern and Western Europe, Asia and South America.
I spent five years as a features editor and reporter for the New York Post. My articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg View, Forbes, Wirecutter, LitHub and others.
I have been interviewed for 99% Invisible, NPR’s Weekend Edition and Marketplace and have appeared on WSJ Lunch Break, Bold TV and Yahoo Finance. Inspired by Judy Blume’s longtime fight against book bans, I’m following the current politically charged book banning crisis on my Substack, called Banner Year. I live with my husband and our son in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
