Anne Kreamer

ANNE KREAMER HAS BEEN fortunate to be in a lot of the right places at the right times. In the late 1970s and early 80s she was part of the team that distributed and co-produced Sesame Street around the world. A few years later she helped launch SPY magazine, about which has been said, “It's pretty safe to say that SPY was the most influential magazine of the 1980s.” In the 1990s when her children were young she had the perfect job -- Worldwide Creative Director for Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite, where she created and launched Nickelodeon magazine.

She switched careers at the turn of the century, becoming a columnist for the cutting-edge business magazine Fast Company. Kreamer created the monthly “American Treasures” column for Martha Stewart Living.  And today, with Going Gray, What I Learned About Beauty, Sex, Work, Motherhood, Authenticity And Everything Else That Matters, and her Yahoo blog, “Going Gray, Getting Real,” Kreamer is once again in the vanguard, good-naturedly encouraging baby-boomer women to rediscover their generation's youthful embrace of honesty and authenticity and to swim against the tide.

Kreamer graduated from Harvard College and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Kurt Andersen, the novelist and host of public radio’s Studio 360, and their two daughters, Kate and Lucy.