Martha Frankel is an American writer. She was born in the Bronx, New York. She began her writing career at the original Details magazine, writing a column about plastic surgery called Knifestyles of the Rich and Famous. She went on to write book reviews, essays and celebrity profiles for other magazines, such as Movieline, Cosmopolitan and The New Yorker. Her memoir, Hats & Eyeglasses, chronicling her family's lifelong love affair with gambling, was published in 2008. "Hats and eyeglasses" is an old gambling expression describing an unfortunate run at the table. In Frankel's childhood, gambling equated to friendship, food and laughter. "We bet on everything, from sports to how much our mothers would lose at Weight Watchers," Frankel recalls in the book. Her second book, Brazilian Sexy: Secrets to Living a Gorgeous and Confident Life was published in April 2010. Her essay "Looped Yarn" appears in the anthology Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting, published by W. W. Norton & Company. Along with Doug Grunther, she is co-host of the Woodstock Roundtable, a Sunday morning radio talk show on WDST in Woodstock, New York. [More at Wikipedia]

July 18th, 1953 in (Age 71)