Kathryn Noel Long (born December 31, 1974) is an American journalist, author, and social historian.
She attended Sarah Lawrence College from 1993 to 1997, where she was a recipient of the Nancy Lynn Schwartz Fiction Award; she graduated with a BA in creative writing in 1997.
She is the author of The Forbidden Apple: A Century of Sex & Sin in New York City which was released in February 2009 by Ig Publishing.
She is a staff editor at Mental Floss,[5] the former executive editor of GO Magazine and has contributed numerous articles to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, Slate, Scientific American, The Village Voice, The Advocate, Playgirl and other publications.
She also contributed entries to the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Gay Folklife, to be published by M.E.