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McKenna, Elizabeth Perle
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Elizabeth Ann Perle was born in Manhattan, New York on April 13, 1956. She received a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1977. She held executive posts at Times Books, Bantam Books, Prentice Hall and Addison-Wesley in New York as well as HarperSanFrancisco and Prentice Hall Press in San Francisco.
She wrote When Work Doesn't Work Anymore: Women, Work and Identity and Money, a Memoir: Women, Emotions, and Cash. In 2002, she co-founded Common Sense Media, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping families navigate the worlds of entertainment, media and technology. She died of breast cancer on August 20, 2015 at the age of 59.
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