Lisa R. Birnbach (born 1957/1958)[1] is an author best known for co-authoring The Official Preppy Handbook, which spent 38 weeks at number one on the New York Times best-seller list in 1980.
Since The Official Preppy Handbook Lisa has written an additional 15 books, for newspapers such as the New York Times, and for magazines such as Glamour, Parade, Rolling Stone, and TV Guide.
She is co–creator and co–host of ABC's Zero Hour, co–writer of the off–Broadway revue, Loose Lips, and until 2007, she hosted the comedy radio program, The Lisa Birnbach Show.
[11] In 2022, Lisa Birnbach appeared in the Netflix docu-series The Andy Warhol Diaries,[12] in which she retroactively criticized The Official Preppy Handbook for passages encouraging gender discrimination and homophobia.
[1] Birnbach was contacted by E. Jean Carroll about an alleged act of violent sexual assault by former U.S. President Donald Trump, and suggested pressing charges.