J.D. Rothman

Hometown  —  Santa Monica, CA

J.D. Rothman, a former instructor of remedial freshman composition, is an Emmy-winning children's television writer, producer and lyricist. While on an eight-state college tour with her older son, she started the formerly anonymous NeuroticParent.com blog, satirizing the college admissions process. The blog was excerpted in “I'm Going to College, Not You” (St. Martins Press, 2010) and later morphed into the Los Angeles Times bestseller, “The Neurotic Parent's Guide to College Admissions.” Rothman and her husband live Santa Monica in their empty nest, where they wait for infrequent texts from their two sons.