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Margie Goldsmith is a contributing lifestyle writer to forbes.com, Wine, Dine & Travel and Business Jet Traveler, where she also has a new museums column. She has written over 1,000 magazine and newspaper articles for such publications as Travel & Leisure, Robb Report, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Globe & Mail, O the Oprah Magazine,
AARP, Shondaland and many others. Her stories have taken her to 144 countries on all seven continents. She has won 100 writing awards including Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Gold, SATW Journalist of the Year, ASJA, NATJA , Folio Awards and Travel Classics Awards.Goldsmith has biked in Croatia, done marathons in the Arctic, Hawaii and NYC, Olympic-distance triathlons in Cuba, and has climbed to Advanced Base Camp on the North face of Mt. Everest. She has published two books: a novel Screw-Up, and most recently, Masters of the Harmonica, interviews with thirty top harmonica players. She is presently working on a new non-fiction book. In her spare time, she writes songs and plays blues harmonica. and has released her blues album, “Margie Goldsmith and Friends.”
Margie Goldsmith is a contributing lifestyle writer to forbes.com, Wine, Dine & Travel and Business Jet Traveler, where she also has a new museums column. She has written over 1,000 magazine and newspaper articles for such publications as Travel & Leisure, Robb Report, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Globe & Mail, O the Oprah Magazine,
Parade, and many others. Her stories have taken her to 140 countries on all seven continents. She has won 94 writing awards including Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Gold, two ASJA Gold Awards, 12 NATJA Gold Awards, four Folio Awards and three Travel Classics Awards.
Goldsmith has biked in Croatia, done marathons in the Artic, Hawaii and NYC, Olympic-distance triathlons in Cuba, and has climbed to Advanced Base Camp on the North face of Mt. Everest. She has published three books: a novel Screw-Up, Nocturnes and Diurnes on artist Alton Dalton Brown, and most recently, Masters of the Harmonica, interviews with thirty top harmonica players. She is presently working on a new non-fiction book. In her spare time, she writes songs and plays blues harmonica.
Margie Goldsmith has hiked, cycled, paddled, climbed, run marathons, done triathlons, and luxuriated in 140 countries on seven continents. She has written about them all for publications including Travel & Leisure, New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. She has won 87 awards including Society of American Travel Writers’ coveted Lowell Thomas Gold Award. She is a Forbes.com contributor and writes features and a museum column for Business Jet Traveler. In her spare time she plays blues harmonica. She feels that music is a universal language, her passport to the world. Her articles can be found at www.forbes.com and www.margiegoldsmith.com