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Bio Hillary Johnson, author, 2006 Johnson has been a journalist since working as the Berkeley stringer for the San Francisco Chronicle while a student at U.C. Berkieley. She received her Masters in Journalism from Columbia University in New York, and has worked as a staff reporter at the Mineapolis Tribune, Congressional Quarterly, Women's Wear Daily, W, and at Life magazine. She was a contributing editor for Rolling Stone magazine for a decade, and has written for numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Town & Country, US magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Mirabella, Elle, Working Woman, In Style, the British magazine Tatler and the Columbia Journalism Review. She has taught as both a professor of journalism at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY and a workshop leader in profile writing at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY. She is also the author of Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic, published in 1996 and updated in 2006.  "When I was in my early twenties, many of my contemporaries claimed that feminism had saved their lives. Had they missed out, they said, they would have gone insane, killed themselves, ended up on the street. I believe I felt similarly at the time, although I think now we all would have found a way to live our lives without becoming bag ladies. In my case, feminism was like a tempest that blew the sand off a long-undisturbed memory. It roiled my recollection of the childhood I had spent with Ruth, the lilac-scented, pre-divorce years on Girard Avenue during which she told me again and again that I could be anything I wanted to be for the simple reason that she loved me, and most especially that I was already--though a child--a writer. Feminism returned me to that state of innocence. I discovered that I wanted to do good; I wanted to be a reporter and a debunker. I was, for the first time since those distant, enchanted years, full of hope and heart-pounding ambition."  |
