About Jeanne

Jeanne Martinet is the author of THE ART OF MINGLING: Fun and Proven Techniques for Socializing in Person (St. Martin’s Griffin) which is now in its fourth edition. It has sold more than 150,000 copies in the U.S. and has been published in ten other countries. She has written eight other books, including MINGLING WITH THE ENEMY: A Social Survival Guide for Our Divided Era (New Harbinger Publications/Penguin Random House Audio, 2020.)

Jeanne 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, The Washington Post and The San Francisco Chronicle. She has shared her humor and mingling know-how on hundreds of TV and radio shows, including NBC’s “The Today Show,” “The CBS Early Show,” NPR’s “Morning Edition” and WHYY’s “Radio Times.”

Jeanne was born and raised in Baltimore and received her B.A. from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. After working for seven years in New York’s publishing industry, she became a freelance writer and editor. Her humorous articles and blogs have appeared in OZY and The Huffington Post along with various local newspapers. Known as “Miss Mingle,” Jeanne lives, writes and mingles in Manhattan. She is available for speaking engagements.