Lisa Holton heads The Lisa Company, an Evanston, IL-based writing, editing and research consulting firm founded in 1998. She is a former Business Editor and reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times and a former editor with the Thomson Corporation. She is a busy writer for corporations, associations and universities nationwide.
Holton has 26 years of experience writing about business, workplace, education and investment topics and has authored, edited or co-written 11 books. Her titles include How to be a Value Investor [McGraw-Hill, June 1999], The Essential Dictionary of Real Estate [Barnes & Noble Books, November 2003] and the The Encyclopedia of Financial Planning [FPA Press, November, 2006].
Her upcoming book, For Members Only: A History and Guide to Chicago's Oldest Private Clubs, will be published by Lake Claremont Press early in 2008. In 2005, she became a contributing writer for the Financial Planning Association on consumer finance and retirement planning issues. Since starting her company, Holton has written for a variety of national magazines and newspapers including Corporate Board Member, the American Bar Association Journal, Parents, American Demographics, Latina, Working Mother, the Boston Globe and the Chicago Tribune. Lisa is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and a former national board member of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW). She is a current member of the Authors Guild, the International Association of Business Communicators and the Society of Midland Authors. In her spare time, Holton writes screenplays and is addicted to movies and theater. Her feature screenplay "The Plant" was a quarterfinalist for the 2002 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting offered by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She has attended the film program at Chicago's Columbia College and completed film production courses at Chicago Filmmakers Workshop. A native of Moline, Ill., Holton grew up in downstate Illinois and Louisville, Ky. She now considers the Windy City her home. She lives in suburban Evanston with her dog Earl.
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