Your Credit Score, Your Money & What's at Stake (Updated Edition): How to Improve the 3-Digit Number that Shapes Your Financial Future
Liz Pulliam Westonis the most-read personal finance columnist on the Internet, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. Her twice-weekly columns forMSN Moneyreach more than 12 million people each month. She’s also the author of the question-and-answer column “Money Talk,” which appears in theLos Angeles Timesand other newspapers throughout the country. Weston appears regularly on television and radio, including NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” and “All Things Considered,” American Public Media’s “Marketplace Money,” and “Fox Business.” For several years, she was a weekly commentator on CNBC’s “Power Lunch.” Her advice on credit and finance has been featured inConsumer Reports,Elle, O the Oprah Magazine,Parents,Real Simple,Woman’s World, theBoston Globe, theChicago Tribune, Associated Press, and numerous other publications. The first edition of her bookYour Credit Scorewas selected as “recommended reading” by The Wall Street Journal Online. Formerly a personal finance writer for theLos Angeles Times, Weston has won numerous reporting awards. She was part of a three-member writing team that won a Gerald Loeb Award for coverage of the Comparator Systems penny stock scandal in 1997. She was also a member of theAnchorage Daily Newsteam that won a Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service in 1989 for coverage of the alcoholism epidemic among native Alaskans. She is the author of the booksEasy Money: How to Simplify Your Finances and Get What You Want Out of Life(2007, FT Press) andDeal with Your Debt: The Right Way to Manage Your Bills and Pay Off What You Owe(2005, Pearson Prentice Hall). Her advice on budgeting is featured inThe Expert’s Guide to the Baby Years(2006, Clarkson Potter). Weston is a graduate of the certified financial planner training program at University of California, Irvine. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. She can be reached via the “Contact Liz” form on her Web site, www.asklizweston.com.