Winner,
First Place Book Award, non-fiction book 2006,
Garden State Journalists (for soft cover trade version)
"An upbeat, down-to-earth, indispensable wedding planning
guide for all streams of Judaism, The Complete Book of Jewish Weddings includes solid advice, fun quizzes,
"insider" interviews with experts, and so much more. It covers
just about everything a bride and groom need to know--from their engagement
through their wedding."
First
came Lea's highly acclaimed, award-winning book,
Mazel Tov! The Complete Book of Jewish
Weddings
Now
comes the latest: a redesigned
soft-cover version titled...
Lea Bayers Rapp is a national award-winning
journalist and author of over 20 books. Her work has appeared in magazines and newspapers
including Good Housekeeping, Playbill, USA Today, New Woman, and other
international, national and regional publications. Her cover stories for the education
issues of New Jersey Monthly magazine have garnered her The Hildy Johnson Award for Top Story of the Year,
and the 1999 Unity Award in Media.
Her
other writings have received top recognitions from the National Federation of Press Women,
The North Jersey Press Club, New Jersey Press Women and the Society of Professional
Journalists.
A member of the Authors Guild,
her well-researched nonfiction books cover topics ranging from business to relationships,
and she contributed to a humor book published by St. Martin's Press.
Her syndicated newspaper column ran in newspapers in various parts of the
country, and she was a columnist and co-columnist for national magazines. Working in the children's field, she co-wrote an interactive live theater
musical for children mounted by The Music Box Players, has written for Disney
publications and co-wrote an educational audio program for classroom use.
As an instructor, Ms. Rapp has been a faculty member, consultant and/or workshop leader at Seton Hall University, The British-American School of
Writing, Middlesex County College, The Cape Writing Workshops for The Cape Cod Writer's
Center, The Metropolitan Writers Conference and the New Jersey Writers Conferences, New
Jersey Institute of Technology, and lectured in various parts of the country.
Wearing her editor's hat, Ms. Rapp is the former editor
of Woman's Interest, a national financial magazine for women, and was features
editor at Marketing Insights magazine, both out of Manhattan. She also
covered tax reform, beinginvited to the White House by President Ronald
Reagan.
