{{short description|American journalist and author (born 1955)}} '''Anne Kreamer''' (born 1955) is an American journalist and author who specializes in business, work/life balance, culture, and women's issues.
== Biography == Kreamer grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, and graduated from Harvard College.<ref name="nytimes">{{cite news|title=Miss Kreamer Wed to Writer|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/10/style/miss-kreamer-wed-to-writer.html|accessdate=9 April 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 10, 1981}}</ref>
After graduating from college, she spent the first half of her career as a media executive and entrepreneur working in international sales for Children's Television Workshop<ref name="nytimes" /> during its first globalizing phase, selling the program in English throughout Southeast Asia and the Caribbean as well as helping to inaugurate co-productions of Sesame Street in Mexico, Spain, France and Germany. She became director of development for CBS Educational and Professional Publishing.
In 1986, she joined her husband, Kurt Andersen, Graydon Carter, and Thomas Philips as part of the team founding ''Spy'' magazine. In 1990 she joined Gerry Laybourne as executive vice-president and worldwide creative director<ref>{{cite book|authorlink1=Sally Helgesen|last=Helgesen|first=Sally|title=The Web of Inclusion|year=1995|publisher=Doubleday Business|isbn=978-0385423649|pages=[https://archive.org/details/webofinclusion00sall/page/224 224–234]|url=https://archive.org/details/webofinclusion00sall/page/224}}</ref> for the cable TV channels Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite, where she conceived and launched ''Nickelodeon Magazine'', as well as launching Nickelodeon's toy and consumer product business.<ref name=Singer>{{cite news|last=Singer|first=Natasha|title=Bottled Blondes, You Too Can Break Free|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/fashion/30skin.html|accessdate=4 April 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 30, 2007}}</ref>
In the early 2000s, she became a columnist for ''Fast Company'', Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and has also written for ''The New York Times'', ''The Wall Street Journal'' and ''Time''. Among other publications, she blogs regularly for ''The Harvard Business Review'' and NextAvenue.org.
She also serves on the board of trustees of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.<ref>{{cite web|title=THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES |url=http://www.franklloydwright.org/about/Board.html |publisher=THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION |accessdate=18 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130424153805/http://www.franklloydwright.org/about/Board.html |archivedate=24 April 2013 }}</ref>
== Books == In 2007 she published ''Going Gray: What I Learned about Beauty, Sex, Work, Motherhood, Authenticity and Everything Else That Really Matters'' (Little, Brown and Company, {{ISBN|978-0-316-16661-4}})<ref name=Donahue>{{cite news|last=Donahue|first=Deirdre|title=Going Gray' author faces aging head-on|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2007-09-09-going-gray_N.htm|accessdate=4 April 2013|newspaper=USA Today|date=September 10, 2007}}</ref> and in 2011, ''It's Always Personal: Navigating Emotion in the New Workplace'' (Random House, {{ISBN|978-0812979930}}).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703806304576232660776237884|title=Book Review: It's Always Personal|last=McHugh|first=Clare|date=April 2, 2011|work=The Wall Street Journal|accessdate=27 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/work-in-progress/2011/06/13/zero-degrees-of-separation-between-work-and-emotions/|title=Zero Degrees Of Separation Between Work And Emotions - Forbes|last=Martin|first=Judy|date=June 13, 2011|work=Forbes|accessdate=27 April 2013}}</ref>
== Personal life == Kreamer lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, the writer Kurt Andersen, who was also host of the Peabody Award-winning<ref>{{cite web| title=WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show and Studio 360 Win Peabody Awards | url=http://www.nypublicradio.org/press/peabody2013/|publisher=New York Public Radio|accessdate=17 April 2013}}</ref> PRI program Studio 360, and their two daughters, Kate and Lucy.
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== External links == * {{Official website|http://www.annekreamer.com}} * Video interview: [http://www.marthastewart.com/248462/anne-kreamer-chats Martha Stewart Show] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303223423/http://www.thegrindstone.com/2012/05/29/career-management/sheryl-sandberg-says-crying-at-work-helps-you-be-a-better-leader-694/ Sheryl Sandberg Says Crying At Work Helps You Be A Better Leader] The Grindstone
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