Edie Jarolim

Edie Jarolim was a guidebook editor at Random House and Simon & Schuster in New York and Rough Guides in London before moving to Tucson and becoming a freelance writer. She is the author of four travel guides, including Arizona for Dummies and Frommer's Easy Guide to San Antonio and Austin, and hundreds of travel articles. Her work has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, The Wall Street Journal, Travel + Leisure, and USAToday.com, among other outlets. Publisher's Weekly said of her recent memoir, Getting Naked for Money: An Accidental Travel Writer Reveals All, "Jarolim's wicked sense of humor coupled with her insider's perspective add a fresh spin to this travel memoir."