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Lisa Collier Cool
BornJuly 6, 1952
OccupationJournalist
Websitewww.lisacolliercool.com 
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Lisa Collier Cool (born July 6, 1952) is an American journalist and author who writes on health-related topics.

Education

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Born Lisa Collier, Cool began collegiate studies in the early 1970s at Shimer College. She later transferred to Columbia University in New York, where she graduated in 1975.[1]

Career

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Cool worked as a literary agent[2] prior to becoming a full-time freelance, magazine article writer in 1984.[3] Several of her subsequent books drew on her insights as an agent.[4] She has also written for the AP, Glamour, Oprah Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Harper's Bazaar, Reader’s Digest, Essence, Prevention and Writer's Digest.[5][6]

In 1997, Cool co-wrote the book Bad Boys: Why We Love Them, How to Live With Them, and When to Leave Them with Carole Lieberman. The book has since been translated into several languages.[7] The 2001 book Beware the Night, written by Cool and New York City police officer Ralph Sarchie, was adapted as the motion picture Deliver Us from Evil.[8] In 2014, Cool co-wrote the book Beat the Heart Attack Gene: The Revolutionary Plan to Prevent Heart Disease, Stroke, and Diabetes with Bradley Bale and Amy Doneen.[9]

She is a regular contributor to Yahoo Health, WebMD[10] and numerous other online and print magazines.

From 2003 to 2005, she served as president of American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA).

Awards

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Cool received a National Magazine Award for Personal Service in 1989 for an article in Good Housekeeping titled "The Preventable Cancer".[11][12] She received an Outstanding Service Award from ASJA in 2012,[13] and is a three-time winner of that organization's June Roth Medical Journalism Award in 2007,[14][15] 2003[15][16] and in 1996.[15] Other awards include ASJA's Donald Robinson Investigative Journalism Award in 1997[15] and its Outstanding Article Award in 2001.[15] She was recognized particularly for her work on fundraising and supporting the ASJA's Writers Emergency Assistance Fund,[13] a charity of which she served as chair and a Trustee from 2006 to 2016.[17]

Personal life

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Cool and her husband have three children.[2][3]

Works

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Non-fiction:

  • How to Sell Every Magazine Article You Write (1986), writing ISBN 9780898792362
  • How to Write Irresistible Query Letters (1987), writing ISBN 9780898792591
  • How to Give Good Phone: Telephone Techniques to Increase Your Power, Profits and Performance (1988), guide ISBN 1556110502
  • Bad Boys: How We Love Them, How to Live with Them, When to Leave Them (1997), with Carole Lieberman, self-help ISBN 9780525941163
  • Beware the Night: A New York City Cop Investigates the Supernatural (2001), with Ralph Sarchie, true events ISBN 0312977379
  • Beat the Heart Attack Gene: The Revolutionary Plan to Prevent Heart Disease, Stroke, and Diabetes (2013), with Bradley Bale and Amy Doneen, health ISBN 9781118454299
  • Healthy Heart, Healthy Brain: The Personalized Path to Protect Your Memory, Prevent Heart Attacks and Strokes, and Avoid Chronic Illness (2022), with Bradley Bale and Amy Doneen, health ISBN 9781549189203

References

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  1. ^ Lisa Collier Cool. "Lisa Collier Cool". LinkedIn. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
  2. ^ a b Lisa Collier Cool. "Lisa Collier Cool's Bio". Archived from the original on July 2, 2013. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
  3. ^ a b Jenny Cromie (March 23, 2009). "Successful Freelancer: Lisa Collier Cool". Retrieved June 24, 2013.
  4. ^ Lisa Collier Cool (1988). How to Sell Every Magazine Article You Write. Writer's Digest Books. p. 218. ISBN 0898793556.
  5. ^ Skb (November 11, 2009). "Casting Couch Radio: Show Notes - Freelance Writer Lisa Collier Cool". Casting Couch Radio. Retrieved January 18, 2019.
  6. ^ "Day in Health | Yahoo! Health". archive.li. June 29, 2013. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
  7. ^ "Cool, Lisa Collier 1952-". Worldcat Identities. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
  8. ^ "Jerry Bruckheimer Takes on Beware the Night". Comingsoon.net. November 21, 2012. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
  9. ^ Bale, Bradley; Doneen, Amy; Cool, Lisa Collier (2014). Beat the Heart Attack Gene. Wiley. ISBN 9781118454299. OCLC 999478263.
  10. ^ Cool, Lisa Collier. "Are Male and Female Brains Different?". WebMD. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
  11. ^ Lisa Collier Cool. "Awards". Archived from the original on October 29, 2012. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
  12. ^ "National Magazine Awards: Winners & Finalists". American Society of Magazine Editors. Archived from the original on October 10, 2018. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
  13. ^ a b "ASJA Writing Awards Recipients". American Society of Journalists and Authors. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
  14. ^ "2007-04-20: ASJA Announces 2007 Award Winners". June 7, 2017. Archived from the original on June 7, 2017. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
  15. ^ a b c d e "American Society of Journalists and Authors". asja.org. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
  16. ^ "2003-05-09: ASJA Presents 2003 Writing Awards". June 12, 2017. Archived from the original on June 12, 2017. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
  17. ^ "Lisa Collier Cool".
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