Name Pamela Satran Role Author | Spouse Richard Satran | |
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Books Beyond Jennifer & Jason - M, Cool Names for Babies, The Possibility of You, Younger, Babes in Captivity Profiles | ||
Pamela Redmond Satran on Her Novel "The Possibility of You"
Pamela Redmond Satran is an American entrepreneur and author of fiction and nonfiction. Her novel Younger, published in 2005, is the basis for a TV series of the same name created by Darren Star and starring Sutton Foster and Hillary Duff. A widely quoted expert on English personal naming, Pamela is the CEO of the naming website Nameberry and private consultancy Anglonym.
Contents
- Pamela Redmond Satran onHer NovelThe Possibility of You
- Personal life and education
- Naming books and related endeavors
- Fiction
- References
Personal life and education
Raised in Norwood, New Jersey, Redmond Satran went to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she was arts editor of The Daily Cardinal. After college, she moved to Brooklyn and worked as a fashion editor at Glamour magazine in New York and later as a fashion features editor.
Redmond Satran lived Montclair, New Jersey from the 1980s until 2015, when she moved to Los Angeles. In the 1990s Satran lived in London, in a townhouse in Hampstead. While living in London, Satran coauthored books on naming in England and in Ireland. In the late 1990s, Satran lived with her family in Berkeley, California, where she studied novel writing with Elizabeth George and Ann Packer.
Naming books and related endeavors
Satran left Glamour to co-author Beyond Jennifer & Jason (1988), a book analyzing style, image, and trends in personal naming, with Linda Rosenkrantz. The pair went on to write ten bestselling books on the subject, including The Baby Name Bible (published in the UK as The Brilliant Book of Baby Names) and Cool Names.
In 2008, sensing that information about names had migrated from books to the internet, Satran and Rosenkrantz founded Nameberry, a naming website with a database of over 50,000 names, thematic naming lists, a daily blog, and forums for name searchers and enthusiasts.
Satran's private naming consultations were confined to confidential sessions with top personalities in the entertainment, design, and corporate worlds before she founded Anglonym, a naming consultancy which helps individuals around the world select English language names for their children or themselves.
Fiction
Redmond Satran writes novels that explore women's lives and issues from a contemporary and historical perspective. Her first novel, The Man I Should Have Married, published in 2003, focuses on a woman retracing the decisions of her life and correcting her mistakes.
Her 2005 novel Younger, about a woman in her forties who pretends to be in her twenties in order to get an entry level job, is the basis for a TV show of the same name created by Sex and the CIty creator Darren Star. The show, which debuted on TVLand on March 31, 2015, is entering its fifth season and stars Sutton Foster, Hilary Duff, Debi Mazar, and Miriam Schor.[2]
Satran's recent and most personal novel, The Possibility of You, is inspired by the story of her Irish grandmother moving to the US in the early 20th century and examines the lives of three women grappling with unplanned pregnancies at three key moments in US history.