Marjorie Rosen

Marjorie Rosen's book, "Boom Town: How Wal-Mart Transformed an All-American Town into an International Community," which examines how multiculturalism has come to the Bible belt town of Bentonville, Arkansas, home office of Wal-Mart, was published on October 1, 2009. Her other books include "Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies, and the American Dream," about the relationship between women onscreen and off, "Mia & Woody: Love and Betrayal" (with Kristi Groteké, Farrow's former nanny), and the novel, "What Nigel Knew" (co-authored). A former editor at the New York Times Magazine and senior writer at People, Rosen has written for publications as varied as the Daily News, Film Comment, Glamour, Ms, Good Housekeeping, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times "Arts & Leisure," and Playboy. A three-time MacDowell Colony Fellow, she is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism, Communication, and Theatre at Lehman College-CUNY and a 2009-2010 Faculty Fellow at the CUNY Grad School's "Center for Place, Culture and Politics."