Melin­da Blau, author of more than four hun­dred arti­cles and fif­teen books, has spent a life­time research­ing and writ­ing about the impor­tance of rela­tion­ships. Our more inti­mate bonds are cov­ered in her New York Times best­seller, Secrets of the Baby Whis­per­er, its two sequels, and Fam­i­ly Whis­per­ing, the book that inspired Blau’s Huff­in­g­ton Post advice col­umn. Blau has been inter­viewed numer­ous times on NPR and has appeared on Oprah, Good Morn­ing Amer­i­ca, CBS news, the Hall­mark Chan­nel, and dozens of oth­er talk shows and pod­casts. She has also won mul­ti­ple awards and com­men­da­tions for her writ­ing, includ­ing those from The Amer­i­can Soci­ety of Jour­nal­ists (Author of the Year), the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil, the Asso­ci­a­tion of Mar­riage and Fam­i­ly Ther­a­py, the Amer­i­can Psy­cho­log­i­cal Asso­ci­a­tion, Chil­dren’s Rights Coun­cil, and Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion of Applied and Pre­ven­tive Psy­chol­o­gy. Her ongo­ing pod­cast, Crow’s Feet: Life As We Age is ded­i­cat­ed to chang­ing the con­ver­sa­tion about get­ting old­er. She lives in Paris and New York City.