Danielle Crittenden Frum is Creative Director and CEO of
Fig Tree and Vine, an online Jewish lifestyle and e-commerce site launched in April 2015. She is also a Contributing Editor to the Huffington Post Media Group and longtime blogger for the Huffington Post. Her numerous articles and essays have appeared in the
Wall Street Journal, the
New York Times, the
Washington Post, the
Daily Telegraph, and the
Ladies Home Journal, among other publications. A former columnist for the
New York Post, she has appeared on NBC's Today show, The O'Reilly Factor, ABC's 20/20 and Nightline, and network news shows, as well as numerous programs for CSPAN, MSNBC, PBS, CNN, Fox, NPR, CTV, and CBC. She is co-author of the cookbook,
From a Polish Country Kitchen (Chronicle, Fall 2012), with Pulitzer-prize winning historian Anne Applebaum, and the author of three previous books: Her non-fiction book
What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman (Simon & Schuster, 1999; Touchstone 2000), resulted in
Vanity Fair describing Crittenden as “one of the most important new thinkers about women and family”. She also has written two works of fiction:
The President’s Secret IMs (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2007), originally published on the Huffington Post; and
Amanda Bright @ Home, the first novel ever to be serialized by the
Wall Street Journal(Warner Books, 2003). Crittenden was born in Toronto, Canada. She is married to journalist and author David Frum, a former special assistant and speechwriter to President George W. Bush, and contributor to CNN and Daily Beast/Newsweek. They have three children and live in Washington, D.C. and Wellington, Ontario. You can email her at Danielle.Crittenden@huffingtonpost.com