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Lauren Weisberger (born March 28, 1977) is an American novelist and author of the 2003 bestseller ''The Devil Wears Prada'', a speculated ''roman à clef'' of her real life experience as a put-upon assistant to ''Vogue'' editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. == Early life and education == Weisberger was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to a school teacher mother and a department store president turned mortgage broker father. Her family is Jewish; Weisberger was raised in Conservative Judaism and later Reform Judaism.〔(Lauren Weisberger interview | www.somethingjewish.co.uk )〕 She spent her early youth in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, a small town outside Scranton. At 11, her parents divorced and she and her younger sister, Mindy, moved to Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the state, with their mother. At Parkland High School, in South Whitehall Township near Allentown, Weisberger was involved in intramural sports, some competitive sports, extra projects, and organizations. She graduated in 1995. She attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she was an English major and a sorority member of Alpha Epsilon Phi, graduating in 1999.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Alpha Epsilon Phi – Famous Phis )〕 After college, she traveled as a backpacker through Europe, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Thailand, India, Nepal, and Hong Kong. Returning home, she moved to Manhattan and was hired as Wintour's assistant at ''Vogue''. She was there for ten months before leaving along with features editor Richard Story. While Weisberger said she felt out of place at the magazine, managing editor Laurie Jones later said, "She seemed to be a perfectly happy, lovely woman".〔Oppenheimer, Jerry; Front Row: The Cool Life and Hot Times of Vogue's Editor In Chief, St. Martin's Press, New York, 2005, ISBN 0-312-32310-7, 328.〕 Weisberger and Story began working for ''Departures Magazine'', an American Express publication, where she wrote 100-word reviews and became an assistant editor. She also published a 2004 article in ''Playboy'' magazine.〔("About Lauren" ), from LaurenWeisberger.com. Retrieved January 29, 2007.〕 After mentioning her interest in writing classes to her boss, Richard Story, he referred her to his friend Charles Salzberg. She started writing a story about her time at Vogue, and completed it by trying to write 15 pages every couple of weeks. After repeated urgings, she showed the finished work to agents; it sold within two weeks. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lauren Weisberger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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