American broadcast journalist and author (born 1942)
Lynn Sherr
(born March 4, 1942) is an American
broadcast journalist
and author, best known as a correspondent for the
ABC
news magazine
20/20
.
Life
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Sherr was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
, and attended
Lower Merion High School
in
Ardmore
. She received a B.A. from
Wellesley College
.
She was a freelance host at
WNET-TV
in
New York City
, then staff. She worked for the
Associated Press
and
WCBS-TV
. In 1977, she was the guest host of the
MacNeil–Lehrer Report
while
Robert MacNeil
was absent, and has hosted a number of
PBS
specials. In 1983–85 she was a reporter/editor for
Conde Nast
. In 2008, she left the television network ABC after working with them for 31 years. She is the author of
Outside the Box: A Memoir
, published in September 2006, which chronicles her life on and off TV, including her husband's death from cancer as well as her own battle with
colon cancer
.
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[2]
She received a 1994
George Foster Peabody Award
along with producer Alan B. Goldberg for the "Hunger Inside" a 20/20 documentary about extreme
anorexia
.
Feminism
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Sherr is a
feminist
.
With
Jurate Kazickas
, Sherr published the
Liberated Women's Appointment Calendar and Survival Handbook
annually for ten years, beginning in 1971.
Also with Kazickas, Sherr published the
American Woman's Gazetteer
in 1976, listing places in the US where women had featured in historic events; an updated version, titled
Susan B. Anthony Slept Here
, was published in 1994.
[3]
Sherr has twice (in 1989 and 1992) been the recipient of the
Planned Parenthood Federation of America's
(PPFA)
Margaret Sanger Award
(known as the "Maggie"), which is awarded to journalists for "exceptional coverage of reproductive rights and health care issues" in the view of PPFA.
[4]
She also hosted PPFA's Maggie Awards luncheon in 2010.
[4]
Sherr has rejected calls for a "new feminism" and remarked, "What's wrong with the old feminism?"
[5]
She strongly criticized
Sarah Palin
for calling herself a feminist: "What, exactly, has she done legislatively for other women? What paths has she forged?"
[5]
Sherr was featured in the
Jewish Women's Archive
web feature
Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution
.
[6]
Published works
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Title
|
Year
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ISBN
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Publisher
|
Subject matter
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Interviews, presentations, and reviews
|
Comments
|
Susan B. Anthony Slept Here: A Guide to American Women's Landmarks
|
1994
|
ISBN
9780812922233
|
Three Rivers Press
|
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Co-author with
Jurate Kazickas
|
Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words
|
1996
|
ISBN
9780307765291
|
Crown Publishing Group
|
Susan B. Anthony
|
Booknotes
interview with Sherr on
Failure Is Impossible
, May 5, 1995
,
C-SPAN
|
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Tall Blondes: A Book About Giraffes
|
1997
|
ISBN
9780836227697
|
Andrews McMeel Publishing
|
Giraffes
|
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America the Beautiful: The Stirring True Story Behind Our Nations's Favorite Song
|
2001
|
ISBN
9781586480851
|
PublicAffairs
|
America the Beautiful
|
Discussion with Sherr on
America the Beautiful
, November 27, 2001
,
C-SPAN
|
|
Outside the Box: A Memoir
|
2006
|
ISBN
9781605297866
|
Rodale Press
|
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Presentation by Sherr on
Outside the Box
, October 4, 2006
,
C-SPAN
|
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Swim: Why We Love the Water
|
2012
|
ISBN
9781610390477
|
PublicAffairs
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Swimming
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Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space
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2014
|
ISBN
9781476725789
|
Simon and Schuster
|
Sally Ride
|
Presentation by Sherr on
Sally Ride
, June 25, 2014
,
C-SPAN
Presentation by Sherr on
Sally Ride
, August 30, 2014
,
C-SPAN
Presentation by Sherr on
Sally Ride
, February 14, 2015
,
C-SPAN
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