Peggy Orenstein

writer

• bio

  Peggy Orenstein is the author of The New York Times best-sellers Girls & Sex, Cinderella Ate My Daughter, and Waiting for Daisy, as well as Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love and Life in a Half-Changed World and the classic SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap.

  Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Peggy is a graduate of Oberlin College and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, filmmaker Steven Okazaki, and their daughter, Daisy.