Cynthia Heimel was born Cynthia Joan Glick in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 13, 1947. She started her career in journalism by working as a paste-up artist in the advertising department of The Soho Weekly News. She moved her way up to writing and editing for the newspaper. She wrote columns for The Village Voice and Playboy magazine about men, feminism, female friendships, flirting, birth control, and lingerie. She also wrote for New York magazine, The Daily News, and Vogue.
She wrote several collections including Sex Tips for Girls; But Enough About You; If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?; Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-Bye!; and If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too? She adapted Sex Tips and But Enough About You into a play entitled A Girl's Guide to Chaos, which opened in 1986 off Broadway at the American Place Theater. She worked for one season on the writing staff of the sitcom Dear John. She died on February 25, 2018 at the age of 70.
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