Margie Goldsmith is a contributing writer at forbes.com, Business Jet Traveler and Wine, Dine & Travel. When not on assignment, she works on her fourth book, a memoir about a Running-With-Scissors childhood, escape to Paris, marching in the May uprising with France’s most important film directors including Roger Vadim and Jean-Luc Godard, dinner with Michael Jordan and the Dream Team in Monaco, an evening at the White House with the Clintons and much more.

Margie 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.

Her new book includes some of her adventures, such as biking in Croatia, marathons in the Arctic, Hawaii and NYC, Olympic-distance triathlons in Cuba and NYC, and climbing 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 Alice Dalton Brown, and most recently, Masters of the Harmonica, interviews with thirty top harmonica players. In her spare time, she writes songs and plays blues harmonica.

Read Margie’s articles on TravelClassics.com and at margiegoldsmith.com.