Bruce Frankel

Bruce Frankel conceived of What Should I Do With The Rest Of My Life? in 2006 when he was struggling to answer that question. Three years earlier, at the age of fifty-three, he had completed an MFA program in poetry at Sarah Lawrence College.

He was a co-writer of the bestseller Life: World War II - History’s Greatest Conflict in Pictures (2001). He has held positions at People magazine and USA Today, where he covered major breaking news, trials, politics, organized crime and terrorism. He began his career in journalism at The Reporter Dispatch, in White Plains, New York, where he was a prizewinning columnist and investigative reporter.

He earned a bachelor's degree in government from Franklin & Marshall College in 1971. He was born in Miami Beach, Florida and grew up in nearby Hollywood, where his father owned a dress store. At age 11, he moved with his family to Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, and later to Long Beach, New York, where he graduated from high school. He now lives in New York City. He is the father of three sons— a musician, a chef, and a high school sophomore— and the owner of two mini dachshunds and a 17-year-old cat.