Pamela Redmond Satran
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"Pamela Redmond Satran" is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction.

Raised in Norwood, New Jersey, Redmond Satran went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was arts editor of The Daily Cardinal. After college, she moved to New York, where she got a job as a fashion editor at Glamour (magazine)/Glamour magazine and later became fashion features editor.

She left to write Beyond Jennifer & Jason, her first name book with Linda Rosenkrantz, which was published in 1988. Satran and Rosenkrantz went on to author many books on names, a subject on which they are acknowledged as international experts. With engineer Hugh Hunter, Satran and Rosenkrantz launched the website Nameberry in 2008; the site now attracts 4 million unique visitors a month.

Satran’s first novel, The Man I Should Have Married, was published in 2003. Younger (TV series)/Younger, the basis for a TV show created by Darren Star, was first published in 2005. It will debut on TVLand March 31, 2015.

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Now there are thousands of people with those names that wouldn't exist if it hadn't been for them. This generation of parents is looking to get away from cookie-cutter stuff, and our culture of celebrities is supporting that.

[And more parents are creating] word names, ... People are looking for a color, a bird, a fish, a feeling that embodies something they care about.

Every conventional naming book gives the guideline, 'Don't forget to look at the initials,' ... Even if the second study contradicts the first, and having bad initials is not going to shorten your life span, it could make what there is of your life less pleasant. And who wants to foist that on innocent children?