Debra Pickrel

A communications executive and journalist, Debra Pickrel is co-author of Frank Lloyd Wright in New York: The Plaza Years, 1954-1959, recipient of the 2008 Independent Publishers Book Awards' Gold Medal in Architecture. The book, which features a foreword by CBS's Mike Wallace, has been celebrated at many distinctive locales including New York's Skyscraper Museum, the Plaza Hotel, the New York Public Library, and Rizzoli. Most recently, she was co-author of The Luxembourg House on Beekman Place: Three Portaits in time, a professional book for the Consulate General of Luxembourg in New York. Pickrel has written for Architectural Record, House Beautiful, Metropolis, and Preservation, as well as multiple Web sites. She also penned "A Day in Turtle Bay," a Manhattan neighborhood walking tour with a foreword by Walter Cronkite. Pickrel received her BA in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her MA in historic preservation from Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland.