Author Fern Schumer Chapman is an accomplished journalist and former reporter for the Chicago Tribune and Forbes, whose work also has appeared in The Forward, The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, Fortune, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Communications, with a master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, she has taught magazine writing and other seminars at both Northwestern and Lake Forest College.