- Penelope Trunk
Penelope Trunk (born Adrienne Roston in
1966 ) is an American writer who examines the increasingly blurred lines between work and life. Her columns appear in the "Boston Globe" and, until December 2007, on "Yahoo Finance". Her syndicated column has run in more than 200 publications. She is the author of "Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success" (Warner, May 2007). She is also the author of the blog "Brazen Careerist".Biography
Trunk was born Adrienne Roston in Boston,
Massachusetts . She attendedNew Trier High School while living in Wilmette,Illinois . She was awarded a Ford Foundation fellowship and earned a BA in history fromBrandeis University in 1990. In the early 90s, she played on the Women’s Professional Beach Volleyball tour with a highest place finish of 17th at nationals.From 1993 to 1995, Trunk attended Boston University and studied creative writing. There she wrote one of the first hypertext novels under the name Adrienne Eisen. (According to her blog, she also used the name Adrienne GreenHeart at or around this time.) She received the New Media Invision award, and was made a member of the
Electronic Literature Organization .Career
Trunk's business experience came from her work at early Internet businesses including one of the first online ordering systems at Ingram Micro, and one of the first subscription software businesses at CyberMedia. She founded two companies: Math.com and eCitydeals.
Trunk began writing professionally in 1999 at eCompany magazine about her own life as an executive. She has been a career columnist at Business 2.0 magazine, Bankrate.com and Yahoo! Finance. She is a columnist at the Boston Globe, and her syndicated column has run in more than 200 publications worldwide. Content for her column is often drawn from her blog, [http://blog.penelopetrunk.com] . Trunk’s decisions about her own career have been written about in "Time" and "The Guardian". She has also been published in "Madison Magazine", a regional publication in
Madison, Wisconsin , where Trunk has lived since 2007.Trunk also creates content for several other websites. Yahoo had licensed some of her content, but terminated her contract in December, 2007. Trunk writes in her blog: " "It turns out that financial content gets a higher CPM (advertising rate) than career content. So while my column has a lot of traffic, Yahoo sells my career column to advertisers as part of the Yahoo Finance package, and I bring down the CPM of the whole package."
Trunk's books include "Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success" (Warner, May 2007) and a forthcoming book about entrepreneurship to be published in early 2009 by CrownBusiness, a division of Random House.
In early 2008, the Brazen Careerist website was expanded as a company, and brought together more than a hundred bloggers from
Generation Y who write on subjects ranging from career advice to politics.Works
* [http://www.adrienneeisen.com/ Adrienne Eisen (Warning: Adult Content)]
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0446578649 Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success (Warner, May 2007)]
* [http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/ Brazen Careerist blog]
* [http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/archive/careerist/penelope-trunk/1;_ylt=ArpHR1pfUyqF8uuXjMDb1PUdwNIF Yahoo Finance: The Brazen Careerist]
* [http://bostonworks.boston.com/news/archive/Climb/ Climb, Boston Globe]
* [http://www.Bankrate.com Bankrate]
* [http://www.brazencareerist.com/ BrazenCareerist.com ]Books
Cite book
publisher = Business Plus
isbn = 0446578649
pages = 224
last = Trunk
first = Penelope
title = Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success
date = 2007-05-25References
* [http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2007/03/05/my-name-is-not-really-penelope/ Penelope Trunk's blog]
* [http://penelopetrunk.com/aboutme.html Penelope Trunk's Website]
* [http://www.penelopetrunk.com/press.html Penelope Trunk in the press]
* [http://www.madisonmagazine.com/article.php?section_id=918&xstate=view_story&story_id=231145 Madison Magazine Live First, Work Second]
* [http://www.careerjournal.com/jobhunting/usingnet/20070409-needleman.html CareerJournal.com Blogs About Recruiting]
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