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Welcome to Carol Felsenthal's Official Web Site.

Carol Felsenthal is the author of several biographies, including Citizen Newhouse: Portrait of a Media Merchant, Power, Privilege, and the Post: The Katharine Graham Story, and Princess Alice: The Life and Times of Alice Roosevelt Longworth.

Her latest book is Clinton in Exile: A President Out of the White House, a look at Bill Clinton’s post presidency. The paperback edition, with updated material, was published by HarperCollins in June 2009.

HBO will soon start production of a television adaptation of her biography of Katharine Graham, Power, Privilege and the Post: The Katharine Graham Story. Joan Didion has written the revised screenplay.

In 2005 and 2006 she taught “Writing Profiles” at the University of Chicago—a course that drew on her experience writing magazine profiles of people ranging from Ann Landers to Don Rumsfeld to Michelle Obama. She has also given speeches around the country and abroad and appeared on scores of television and radio shows to talk about her experiences writing unauthorized biographies of some of the country's most powerful people.

Carol's FELSENTHAL FILES political blog on CHICAGOMAG.COM won BEST BLOG in the CITY AND REGIONAL MAGAZINE ASSOCIATION'S annual competition.

For more than a year, Carol has been writing a political blog, FELSENTHAL FILES, for Chicago magazine. Click 'HERE'
for links to all her posts.

Her posts for The Hill can be found at

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/carol-felsenthal

Chicago magazine Wins Excellence Online at 35th Annual CRMA Conference
Posted May 5, 2011 at 11:39 AM

The City and Regional Magazine Association honored Chicago magazine with two awards at the 2011 conference on Monday, May 2 at The Drake Hotel in Chicago. Competing among 143 finalists, representing 35 publications, Chicago magazine took home the following awards:

Excellence Online
Chicagomag.com dovetails with its print namesake in helping readers get the most out of Chicago, and the website has become a destination in its own right. You’ll find the latest information on dining, nightlife, culture, news, politics, communities, and trends in Chicago—everything to help you make the most out of living in and around the city. Felsenthal Files:

Blog Column – "Felsenthal Files"
Written by Carol Felsenthal
Edited by Esther Kang
Felsenthal Files: Political reporter Carol Felsenthal is a lifelong Chicagoan whose blog focuses on Chicago politics, which, in the age of Obama, extends to the national and international spheres. Through Q & As with government power players and informed analysis, she takes you inside Chicago’s political machine.

Carol Felsenthal's latest biography, a candid, objective look at Bill
Clinton's post White House years, was published in paperback by HarperCollins in June 2009.

It is available for ordering from:

Amazon

Learn more about Carol at
HarperCollins - Click on Image for Link to Video

On September 4, 2008 Carol appeared on a NBC Today Show panel, with co-hosts Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb. Fellow panelists included Jodi Kantor of the New York Times and Janice Min, editor in chief of US Weekly. The subject was Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, John McCain’s just-selected vice presidential nominee.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/26544558#26544558

Listen to Carol discuss Clinton in Exile on National Public Radio’s
“All Things Considered,”
May 30, 2008

Chicago Magazine
May 2008

'A Slippery Subject'
Read article here

WGN Radio Podcast:

http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/720-wgn-news-podcast-5-02-08/8915855/

Barnes and Noble Podcast

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Clinton-in-Exile/Carol-Felsenthal/e/9780061231599/?itm=1#TABS

April 10, 2007

BY ROBERT FEDER Sun-Times columnist

Chicago magazine contributing editor Carol Felsenthal's 1993 biography of the late Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham is about to be made into a movie by HBO Films.

Writer Joan Didion has adapted Power, Privilege and the Post: the Katharine Graham Story into a screenplay. No word yet on who'll play the legendary media mogul in the film to be directed by Tom Hooper.

Meanwhile, Felsenthal is busy working on a new biography of former President Bill Clinton, to be published by William Morrow.

Journalism Award

Carol's most recent Journalism award, for in-depth reporting, was awarded to her in April 2005, as follows:

SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS HONORS BEST JOURNALISM IN 2004 PETER LISAGOR AWARDS

”The awards are named for Peter Lisagor, late Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Daily News. Reporters and editors from SPJ chapters in five cities reviewed nearly 900 entries published or broadcast in 2004. Plaques were presented for 61 reports, chosen for such attributes as enterprise, accuracy, scope, style and impact.”

IN-DEPTH REPORTING

--Chicago magazine, "The Lost World of Kup," Carol Felsenthal

Here are the judges' comments:

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