Cathryn Jakobson Ramin

Cathryn Jakobson Ramin is an American journalist, investigative reporter, and author. She has written for publications such as The New York Times Magazine,New York Magazine,O, the Oprah Magazine and More (magazine). To date, she has published one book, Carved in Sand: When Attention Fails and Memory Fades in Midlife (2007, HarperCollins), which became a ''New York Times'' bestseller. She is currently at work on a second book, about the back pain industry, titled The Fragile Column: How to Beat the Back Pain Industry At Its Own Game, to be published in 2014.

Ramin (who uses the unhyphenated last name “Jakobson Ramin,”) was born in New York City. She graduated from Scarsdale High School in 1974, then went on to earn a B.A. in theater and psychology from Tufts University in 1978.

Ramin remained in Boston after college. She began her career as a writer and photographer at a monthly tabloid trade journal, The New England Fashion Retailer, starting in 1979. She then worked as an assistant editor at Inc. Magazine until 1980, when she moved to Manhattan. In New York she worked as a writer and editor for Barron's and Money, and freelanced for New York Magazine and The New York Times Magazine, among many others. On a trip to Los Angeles to report a story, she met Ron Ramin, a composer for television and movies. She moved to LA in 1987, and she and Ron Ramin were married in 1988. In 1998, the family moved to northern California with their two sons.

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