About Jeanne

Jeanne Martinet is the author of MINGLING WITH THE ENEMY: A Social Survival Guide for Our Divided Era, published by New Harbinger Publications and Penguin Random House Audio in December, 2020. She has written eight other books, including THE ART OF MINGLING (St. Martin’s Press) which has sold more than 150,000 copies and been published in ten countries.

Jeanne has been featured in such publications as: The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsweek, The U.S. News and World Report, Salon.com, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, TimeOut New York, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, The Washington Post and The San Francisco Chronicle. She has shared her humor and mingling know-how on hundreds of TV and radio shows, including NBC’s “The Today Show,” “The CBS Early Show,” NPR’s “Morning Edition” and WHYY’s “Radio Times.”

Jeanne was born and raised in Baltimore and received her B.A. from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. After working for seven years in New York’s publishing industry, she became a freelance writer and editor. Her humorous articles and blogs have appeared in OZY and The Huffington Post along with various local newspapers. Known as “Miss Mingle,” Jeanne lives, writes and mingles in Manhattan. She is available for speaking engagements.