Mary Lisa Gavenas
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Mary Lisa Gavenas

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Mary Lisa Gavenas, author of SELLING OPPORTUNITY: THE STORY OF MARY KAY (coming from Viking Penguin on April 28) and COLOR STORIES: BEHIND THE SCENES IN AMERICA'S BILLION-DOLLAR BEAUTY INDUSTRY, was named a fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography and has been cited as an expert commentator on female entrepreneurship (CBS, NBC, CNN, BBC-4). A former senior editor at Glamour, department head at InStyle and Mirabella, and columnist for Elle, she has contributed to Salon, Fast Company, The New York Times Magazine, and other national outlets. As an academic author, she has written for publications ranging from the Worlds of Consumption series from Palgrave Macmillan to The African American National Biography published by the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University and Oxford University Press, and is the sole author of the 220,000-word reference THE FAIRCHILD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MENSWEAR published by Bloomsbury.
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