Martha Beck

Beck is a graduate of Harvard with a BA, MA, and PhD. She taught at
Harvard and at the American Graduate School of International
Management in career development. After academia she became a "life
design" counselor and set up Life Designs, Inc., a practice for helping
clients fulfill their potential.
Her other bestsellers are Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth,
Transformation and Unconditional Love and Breaking Point: Why
Women Fall Apart and How They Can Re-Create Their Lives. She has
also written for a number of American magazines.
Beck lives in Phoenix, Arizona with her family.