Harriet Edleson

Harriet Edleson is an expert on baby boomer retirement strategies. A former staff writer for AARP and contributing writer for Kiplinger's Retirement Report, she has written the Retiring feature for the New York Times.

A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, she began her journalism career at Gannett Westchester (New York) newspapers and the Houston Chronicle. She writes for MarketWatch.com and the Washington Post Real Estate section, and lives in Bethesda, Maryland. Visit her website at Howtoretireonless.com.

BOOK REVIEW:

from retirement coach Joe Casey, founder, Retirement Wisdom

Because of my work as a retirement coach, I read more books on retirement than most people. I found 12 Ways to Retire on Less to be a breath of fresh air. It’s a well-written, no-nonsense, comprehensive guide to planning for retirement in today’s challenging environment…. It’s a pragmatic, reality-check on retirement today that shows how there are still ways to make it work. The strength of the book is on how to make savvy moves to optimize your resources in funding what for many people promises to be a longer retirement than previous generations enjoyed. However, my favorite parts of the book were when Edleson goes beyond those core financial topics to emphasize the importance of keeping the dreams you have for retirement in focus…. I recommend this book as a valuable resource that will help you reframe how you’re thinking of your next chapters and retire smarter.