Dawn Eden

Dawn Eden Goldstein
Born	1968 New York, New York
Occupation	Author, journalist
Language	English
Nationality	American
Alma mater	New York University; Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies; University of St. Mary of the Lake
Subject	Roman Catholicism, music
Years active	1985-present
Website
The Dawn Patrol

Dawn Eden Goldstein is an American Roman Catholic author and journalist who was formerly a rock historian and tabloid newspaper headline writer. Under the pen name Dawn Eden, she has also written books on topics concerning faith, sexuality, and spiritual healing.

Goldstein was born to a Reform Jewish household. She is the grand-niece of poet Alma Denny.

Goldstein began writing about rock music under the abbreviated name "Dawn Eden" in 1985 for fanzines, eventually becoming a popular-music historian, writing for Mojo, Salon, New York Press, and Billboard, among others. In 1989 she graduated from New York University with a degree in Communications.

From 1990 through the early 2000s, she penned liner notes for more than seventy CD reissues. Artists she interviewed include Harry Nilsson, Del Shannon, and Lesley Gore.

She spent years researching and championing the music and life of sunshine pop progenitor Curt Boettcher and wrote liner notes for several collections of his work.

In 1999, Goldstein had a "born-again" experience that led her to become a Protestant Christian. In 2006, she was received into the Roman Catholic Church.

She worked as a copy editor at the New York Post from early 2002 to January 2005. A headline she wrote about a toilet-bowl collapse ("Hurt in line of doody") won first place in the "Brightest Headline" category of the 2004 New York State Associated Press Awards. She was forced to leave the Post after edits she made to a story about in vitro fertilization revealed her pro-life sympathies. The firing led the New York Observer to publish a front-page profile of her by George Gurley, "Eden in Exile."

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