lisanapoli

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2022

I was born and raised in Brooklyn before BKLYN was cool. Downtown LA dweller since 2004. Author of four books: Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned on my Accidental Journey to the Happiest Kingdom on Earth (Crown, 2011), Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald's Fortune and the Woman Who Gave it All Away (Dutton, 2016), Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN and the Making of 24-Hour News (Abrams, 2020), and Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR (Abrams, 2021.)

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