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Jeanne Martinet — a.k.a. "Miss Mingle" — is the author of six books, including the widely acclaimed THE ART OF MINGLING (St. Martin's Press, 1992, and 2006), which has sold more than 150,000 copies in the U.S. alone. Her books have been published in the UK, France, Italy, Germany, China, Japan, Saudi Arabia and Israel. She has been featured in such publications as: The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsweek, The U.S. News and World Report, Salon.com, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, TimeOut New York, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Playboy, The Washington Post, and The San Francisco Chronicle. Martinet has shared her humor and mingling know-how on hundreds of TV and radio shows, including "The Today Show (with Katie Couric)," " The CBS Early Show," "The Bill O'Reilly Show," NPR's "Morning Edition" and Britain's "This Morning with Richard and Judy."

Jeanne Martinet was born in Baltimore to a family of artists and musicians (her grandparents founded the Baltimore Opera Company). She attended Roland Park Country School in Baltimore, graduated from the University of Virginia and then attended the Denver Publishing Institute in the summer of 1984. In addition to operating her own singing telegram service in Charlottesville, Baltimore, and Chicago, Martinet worked as an editor at E.P. Dutton and at St. Martin's Press and as a publicist for Workman Publishing Company. Since 1990 she has been a freelance writer and editor. Jeanne Martinet lives, writes, and mingles in New York City.

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