While writing SHAKING HER ASSETS, her first novel, Renée has been a television producer at 60 Minutes Wednesday on CBS (see the links to some of her stories in Other Work). Before becoming a television journalist, Renée worked in print, first as an editor for the now-defunct magazine Gear, and then as a writer and editor for the weekly newspaper The New York Observer. Renée graduated summa cum laude, totally naïve and a little misguided from Princeton, with a Bachelor’s in History and European Cultural studies. She then graduated from Harvard Law School, a little less misguided and thoroughly intent on never becoming a lawyer. In this, she’s succeeded. She was born in 1973 in Ithaca, New York, and grew up between Ithaca and Paris, France, an odd back-and-forth between redneck and highbrow, which probably still sums her up today.