Betsy Carter

Betsy Carter is the author most recently of The Puzzle King, published in 2009 by Algonquin Books. Algonquin also published her previous novels, Swim to Me and The Orange Blossom Special. Her memoir, Nothing to Fall Back On: The Life and Times of a Perpetual Optimist, was a national bestseller. She writes for O, The Oprah Magazine and Good Housekeeping, New York, Glamour, and More, among others. She was a reporter at Newsweek for nine years before serving as the editorial director of Esquire, and she was the founding editor in chief of the award-winning New York Woman magazine. Carter lives in New York City.