Danielle Crittenden

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Danielle Crittenden is Managing Editor at HuffingtonPost.ca, in charge of blogs and opinion. Since The Huffington Post first launched in 2005, Canadians have been avid readers of the site. The Huffington Post Canada enjoyed a hugely successful debut in May 2011, and currently has nearly 2 million unique visitors per month, more than Canoe and the National Post.

Crittenden is the author of three books: The President's Secret IMs, a hilarious collection of imaginary online correspondence, originally published on Huffington Post, between President George W. Bush and his international "buddy list" (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, July, 2007). Her previous book, Amanda Bright @ Home, was the first novel ever to be serialized by the Wall Street Journal. It was published in hardcover by Warner Books in May 2003 (paperback, 2004). Crittenden also wrote the widely acclaimed and hotly debated non-fiction book What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman (Simon & Schuster, 1999; Touchstone 2000), which resulted in Vanity Fair describing Crittenden as one of the most important new thinkers about women and family. Her forthcoming cookbook, From a Polish Country Kitchen, is co-written with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum and will be published in North America by Chronicle Books in the fall of 2012.

Crittenden blogs regularly for the Huffington Post. Her numerous articles and essays have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Washington Post, The National Post, the Ladies Home Journal, Chatelaine, Redbook, and Reader's Digest, among other publications. A former columnist for The New York Post, she was a panelist on CNN's weekly Take Five program. She's appeared on NBC's Today Show, The O'Reilly Factor, ABC's 20/20 and Nightline, and network news shows, as well as numerous programs for CSPAN, MSNBC, PBS, CNN, Fox, TVO and CBC. She is a regular guest on talk radio programs across the country, and an occasional contributor to National Public Radio.

Crittenden was born in Toronto, Canada. She is married to journalist and author David Frum, a former special assistant and speechwriter to President George W. Bush, and the author of The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush.

They have three children and live in Washington, D.C. and Prince Edward County, Ontario.