Īfter mentioning her interest in writing classes to Story, he referred her to his friend Charles Salzberg. She also published a 2004 article in Playboy magazine. Weisberger and Story began working for Departures, an American Express publication, where she wrote 100-word reviews and became an assistant editor. Weisberger said she felt out of place at the magazine, though Vogue managing editor Laurie Jones later said, "She seemed to be a perfectly happy, lovely woman".
After ten months, she and Vogue features editor Richard Story left the magazine. Returning to the United States after her backpacking expedition, Weisberger settled in Manhattan, where she was hired as assistant to Vogue editor Anna Wintour.
Īfter graduating from Cornell University, Weisberger backpacked through much of Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, including Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Thailand, India, Nepal, and Hong Kong. She graduated from Parkland High School in 1995 and attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she was an English major and a sorority member of Alpha Epsilon Phi, graduating in 1999. She attended Parkland High School in South Whitehall Township near Allentown, Pennsylvania, where she was involved in intramural sports, some competitive sports, extra projects, and organizations. At age eleven, her parents divorced and she and her younger sister moved to Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the state, with their mother. She spent her early youth in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, a small town outside Scranton. Her family is Jewish, and she was raised in Conservative Judaism and later Reform Judaism. Weisberger was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania to a school teacher mother and a department store president turned mortgage broker father. She has since worked on the film adaptation of her novel and has published seven other novels. Weisberger has worked as a writer and editor for magazines such as Vogue and Departures before writing her first novel The Devil Wears Prada. Lauren Weisberger (born March 28, 1977) is an American writer best known for her 2003 bestseller The Devil Wears Prada, a roman à clef of her experience as an assistant to Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.
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