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Price and Tom Price
Susan Crites Price and Tom
Price are the authors of The Working Parents Help Book: Practical Advice for
Dealing with the Day-to-Day Challenges of Kids and Careers (Peterson’s 1994,
rev. ed. 1996). The book won a Parent’s Choice Award and was a selection of the
Scholastic Book Club.
The Prices wrote the weekly
“Working Parents Lifeline” column, which was published in more than 60
newspapers, and the weekly “Working Solutions” column, which appeared first on
the Family Planet Internet service and now is archived on Disney’s Family.com
Web site.
Recognized as experts on
balancing the demands of family, career and household management, the Prices
have been interviewed on numerous television and radio broadcasts and by many
newspapers and magazines. They have appeared on “Today” and “Oprah” and have
spoken to employee groups at such major corporations as Marriott, Gannett and
Discovery Communications. Their articles on family matters have appeared in
such media as Working Mother, Family Life, The
Susan also is author of The Giving Family: Raising Our Children to Help Others (Council on Foundations, 2001, rev. ed. 2003) and is co-author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Child Safety (Macmillan, 2000). She has spoken about children, families and philanthropy to numerous philanthropic organizations around the world. In 2003, she joined the staff of the Council on Foundations, and in 2007 she became vice president of the National Center for Family Philanthropy.
Tom was a veteran newspaper
reporter, most recently as a correspondent in the Cox Newspapers Washington
Bureau, before he became a fulltime freelancer in 1996.
When not working with Susan, Tom
focuses on government, politics, technology, business and education. With former
Ambassador and U.S. Rep. Tony Hall, Tom wrote
Changing the Face of Hunger: One
Man’s Story of How Liberals, Conservatives, Republicans, Democrats, and People
of Faith are Joining Forces to Help the Hungry, the Poor, and the Oppressed
(W Publishing Group, 2006, soft-cover edition 2007). Tom is
author of three major studies of politics on the Internet and a fourth about new
advocacy group tactics for influencing corporate behavior -- all published
by the Foundation for Public Affairs. He writes the Frommer’s guides Washington, D.C., for Dummies (Wiley Publishing, 2003, 2005
and 2007)
and, with Susan, the Irreverent Guide to Washington, D.C. (Wiley, 2005
and 2007). He is
a contributing writer for Congressional Quarterly’s The CQ Researcher,
and he writes a public affairs column for the science magazine Optics and Photonics News. Tom’s work has
appeared in such periodicals as The New York Times, The
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