Geri Spieler
| Geri Spieler | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 25, 1958 Los Angeles, California |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 💼 Occupation | Author, researcher |
| Known for | Books and Internet research skills |
| 🌐 Website | gerispieler |
Geri Spieler (born September 25, 1958) is an American author, journalist, researcher, and the vice president of the California Writers Club Central Board. She was the founder and editor of Electronic Commerce News and has also contributed and written for the Huffington Post, TruthDig.com, Medium, and Substack. Spieler is the author of Housewife Assassin: The Woman Who Tried to Kill President Ford.
Early life and education
Spieler was born on September 25, 1958, in Los Angeles, California. She earned a BA in English at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Career
Spieler started her career in 1994 as an editor and reporter at Philips Publishing International. She focused on business development strategies for Fortune 1000 companies and for the vendors who served them. Later, Spieler became the editor of Philips Publishing International’s technology journal Electronic Data Interchange.
In 1996, Spieler joined the Gartner group as a research director and analyst. She worked there for over seven years, publishing over 150 research notes, developing and delivering presentations in North America, Asia, Europe, and South America, and supporting Gartner subscriptions and services to Fortune 500 companies that were not previously Gartner clients.
Since 2009, Spieler has been working as a freelance writer and has contributed and written for the Huffington Post, TruthDig.com, Medium, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, Westways, and Forbes. She also taught Internet research skills to various types of organizations.
In 2021, Spieler became the president of the San Francisco Peninsula branch of the California Writers Club. She served there for over two years. In 2023, she became the vice president of the state organization of the California Writers Club.
Spieler published her first creative nonfiction book about Sara Jane Moore, the woman who tried to kill President Gerald Ford, which was published first by Macmillan in 2009 under the title Taking Aim at the President: The Remarkable Story of the Woman Who Shot at Gerald Ford. It was republished by Diversion Books in February 2023 under the title of Housewife Assassin – The Woman Who Tried To Kill President Ford. She has also published a book with her husband, Rick Kaplowitz, San Francisco Values and Common Ground for Getting America Back on Track, with Palmetto Publishing Group.
Achievements
In 1995, Spieler was named the Jewish Big Sister of the Year in Washington, DC. While working at Gartner, she received the Distinguished Speaker of the Year award. She received the Volunteer of the Year award from the Palo Alto Community Emergency Response Team in 2005. In 2011, Spieler won the Louise Bogges Award from the California Writers Club.
Spieler served as Chair of the 2005 Jack London Writers Conference and holds membership in the Women's National Book Association, the Shuffle Collective, the Writers Guild, the Authors Guild, the Internet Society, the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association, and the Book Critics Circle. She has been a featured and award-winning speaker at conferences in Tokyo, Sao Paolo, Amsterdam, Mexico City, New York, San Francisco, Florida, and Las Vegas, and as a presenter at the 2023 San Francisco Writers Conference. Spieler is also a member of the Society of Professional Journalists.
References
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