Jane Bryant Quinn

Jane Bryant Quinn (born February 5, 1939) is an American financial journalist. Her columns talk about financial topics such as investor protection, health insurance, Social Security, and the sufficiency of retirement plans.
Biography
She was born in Niagara Falls, New York, and graduated magna cum laude from Middlebury College in Vermont, where she was a member of Pi Beta Phi fraternity for women. She is a contributing editor for Newsweek, where she wrote a biweekly column for 30 years, retiring it in 2009. She also writes a bimonthly column for Bloomberg.com.
Her twice-weekly, syndicated Washington Post Writers Group column, "Staying Ahead", ran for 27 years in over 250 newspapers and is considered one of the most successful newspaper columns. She retired it after a 27-year run. Quinn was co-founder, editor and general manager of McGraw-Hill's "Personal Finance Letter." She was a reporter, then a co-editor of the consumer publication, "The Insider's Newsletter," formerly published by Cowles Communications. She worked for CBS News, first on The CBS Morning News, then on The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. She has been a regular on ABC's The Home Show as well as a guest on Good Morning America, Nightline, and other programs.
She has also written personal finance columns for Woman's Day and Good Housekeeping. She hosted the PBS program on personal finance, Take Charge, and co-hosted an investment series Beyond Wall Street, also on PBS.
She helped develop the software program Quicken Financial Planner.
She has served on the boards of the Harvard School of Public Health, the Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College and her alma mater, Middlebury College. She is currently a director of Bloomberg L.P., the financial services company, and of GSE Systems, Inc. The World Almanac named her one of the 25 most influential and powerful women in America.
Starting in 2010, Quinn became editorial director of hyperlocal media startup Main Street Connect, where she is also a member of its board of directors.
Her late husband, David C. Quinn, was a lawyer. She has two sons, Matthew Ostrowski and Justin Quinn. She has three stepchildren, David P. Quinn, Martha Quinn, and Christopher Quinn. She married author Carll Tucker in 2008.
Awards
1979 Supersisters trading card set (one of the cards featured Quinn's name and picture)
1981, 1982, 1984, National Press Club's Consumer Journalism Award
1983 Matrix Award in Magazines
1984 New York State Award for Women of Distinction in the Field of Journalism
1986 National Headliner Award for Consistently Outstanding Magazine Feature Column
1987 Consumer Federation of America's Outstanding Consumer Media Service Award
1992, 1995 John Hancock Award for Excellence in Business and Financial Journalism
1995 Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary
1995 ICI Education Foundation American University Journalism Award for Excellence in Personal Finance Reporting
1997 Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award
1997, 1998 "100 Most Influential Business Journalists" – The Journalist and Financial Reporter newsletter
2005 National Consumers League Trumpeter Award for Consumer Journalism
Books
1978 Everyone's Money Book (Delacorte Press)
1991 Making the Most of Your Money (Simon & Schuster)
1994 A Hole in the Market (The Whittle Company)
1997 Making the Most of Your Money (2nd edition)
2006 Smart and Simple Financial Strategies for Busy People (Simon & Schuster)
2009 Making the Most of Your Money – Completely Revised (3rd edition)
2016 How to Make Your Money Last (Simon & Schuster)
References
External links
Jane Bryant Quinn's bio at Newsweek
Middlebury College alumni
American finance and investment writers
20th-century American women journalists
People from Niagara Falls, New York
1939 births
Living people
Bard College
Journalists from New York (state)
20th-century American journalists
20th-century American women writers
20th-century American writers
21st-century American journalists
21st-century American women journalists
21st-century American women writers
Gerald Loeb Award winners for Columns, Commentary, and Editorials
Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award winners
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health people