# Anna David (journalist)

Anna Benjamin David (born 1970) is an American publisher, author, speaker, podcast host, and television personality.

## Early life

David was born to Jewish parents. She is a graduate of Trinity College.

## Career
### Book and magazine author

David is the author of the novels Party Girl (HarperCollins, 2007), Bought (HarperCollins, 2009), and the non-fiction books Falling For Me (HarperCollins, 2011), Reality Matters (HarperCollins, 2010), True Tales of Lust and Love, How to Get Successful by F*cking Up Your Life and Make Your Mess Your Memoir. Her book By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There, co-written with Tom Sizemore, was a New York Times bestseller.
In 2021, she got the rights to Party Girl back from HarperCollins and relaunched the book under her own publishing imprint. Party Girl is in development as a movie with the producer of Martin Scorsese's The Irishman. In late 2024, David released a revised "PG Version" of Party Girl with much of its explicit content removed, prompting the Wall Street Journal to describe her as, "part of an era of tell-all writers now worried about their children reading their books."
David has been a contributor to The Daily Beast, Details, Maxim, Premiere, Parenting, People, Us Weekly, Time, MindBodyGreen, MarieClaire, BuzzFeed, and Razor.
David's work has appeared in The New York Times, The LA Times, Details, Cosmopolitan, Time, Vice, BuzzFeed, Psychology Today, HuffPost, New York Post, The Huffington Post, Playboy, Redbook, Self, Stuff, TV Guide, Movieline, Women's Health, Esquire UK, Teen Vogue, Variety, Tatler, Emmy, and Salon.

### Television personality

David was one of the main hosts on G4’s Attack of the Show for four years and has been featured on Good Morning America, The Talk, Hannity, Red Eye, Dr. Drew, Jane Velez Mitchell and The Insider as well as on various other programs on Fox News, CTV, MTV News, VH1 and E!.
In 2010, David started speaking at colleges about addiction and recovery. That year, she began delivering the keynote speech “Surviving and Thriving in an Addictive Society” at colleges across the country. In 2017, she gave her 10-minute talk, “How to Wear Your Labels” alongside Tony Robbins at the Genius Network Annual event. In 2018, she spoke at TEDxOhlone, TEDxLosGatos and TedXUniversityofSanDiego.
She speaks at organizations, events and corporations on three different topics: goal-setting, leaving a legacy, and building authority.

### Legacy Launch Pad Publishing

In 2017, David launched Legacy Launch Pad Publishing, a company that publishes books for entrepreneurs and thought leaders. Legacy Launch Pad has released numerous books that have become Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestsellers.
David hosts a podcast on publishing, which has been named one of the best publishing podcasts by LA Weekly and Feedspot, among many others. The podcast has featured interviews with Chris Voss, Adam Carolla and Jay Abraham and many more. She also hosts the Fail Your Way to Success podcast. David is the book critic for KATU Portland's morning show and writes about literature for Los Angeles Magazine.

## Personal Life

In 2023, David and her partner James Agnew welcomed a baby via surrogate, a topic she writes about for Pasadena Magazine.