Carol Felsenthal

Carol Felsenthal is a writer of biographies—among her subjects are Katharine Graham, Bill Clinton, Allice Roosevelt Longworth—and long-form magazine profiles—among her subjects are Roger Ebert, Ann Landers, Michelle Obama, Rod Blagojevich, Bill Daley. Her work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers. She was, for many years, a contributing writer to Chicago magazine and its chief political blogger, under the title “Felsenthal Files.”  She was born and reared in Chicago, a graduate of Chicago Public Schools (K-12), the University of Illinois in Urbana, and Boston College (MA in English literature). She and her husband, Steve Felsenthal, raised three children in Chicago and continue to live there. The three children, all writers—one a writer and artist—live in New York.