Suze Orman

Suze Orman is the author of four consecutive New York Times bestsellers, "The Laws of Money," The Lessons of Life: Keep What You Have and Create What You Deserve;" "The Road to Wealth;" "The Courage to Be Rich; and The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom," and the national bestseller "You've Earned It, Don't Lose It." A new PBS-TV special based on the "The Laws of Money, The Lessons of Life" premiered nationwide as part of its spring 2003 pledge drive. Hitting The New York Times bestseller list after just one week on sale, "The Road to Wealth "(Riverhead Books; July 2001), currently has more than 650,000 copies in print. Among the top 15 nonfiction bestsellers on Publishers Weekly's 2001 hardcover list, the book also placed in the top ten on both USA Today and Business Week's business bestseller lists for 2001. The book appeared simultaneously on The Wall Street Journal's hardcover nonfiction and business bestseller lists, and held positions on the bestseller lists of the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune, as well. "The Courage to Be Rich" (Riverhead Books), which was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller, currently has more than one million copies in print and was among the top ten nonfiction bestsellers on Publishers Weekly's 1999 hardcover list. It was also #1 on the business bestseller lists of The New York Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal, where it simultaneously appeared on the Journal's hardcover nonfiction bestseller list. In addition, it made Business Week's bestseller list, reached the #1 position on the Los Angeles Times list, and held spots on the bestseller lists of USA Today, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, and the Boston Globe. The trade paperback version of "The Courage to Be Rich" was released by Riverhead Trade Paperback in January 2002. Suze Orman's other #1 New York Times bestseller, "The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom" (Crown Publishers), was released in April 1997. The hardcover book currently has close to 2.2 million copies in print and remained on the New York Times list for more than 11 months. The #1 nonfiction bestseller on Publishers Weekly's 1998 hardcover list, the book has been in the #1 position on the bestseller lists of many major publications nationwide, including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Business Week, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Chicago Tribune. It is currently available in six countries worldwide. Among USA Today's top ten business bestsellers for 2001, the trade paperback version of The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom (Three Rivers Press; December 2000) already has 570,000 copies in print, with a total of six printings. Immediately hitting the New York Times bestseller list, it ranked third on Business Week's list of paperback business bestsellers for 2001 and appeared on the bestseller list of The Wall Street Journal, as well. Suze Orman's first book, "You've Earned It, Don't Lose It" (Newmarket Press), which was originally published in January 1995, is currently in its 25th printing and has almost 600,000 copies in print in its combined hardcover, softcover, and audio formats. It also made the business bestseller lists of USA Today, Business Week, and The Wall Street Journal. Suze's three previous PBS specials, based on "The Road to Wealth," "The Courage to Be Rich" and "The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom," are among the most successful fundraisers in the history of Public Television. Suze served as writer, co-producer, and host of all three specials. Profiled in Worth magazine's 100th issue (October 2001) as among those "who have revolutionized the way America thinks about money," Suze was recently selected as one of five distinguished recipients of the prestigious 2002 TJFR Group Business News Luminaries Award, which honors lifetime achievement in business journalism. In 1999, Suze was named one of Smart Money magazine's top thirty "Power Brokers," defined as those who have most influenced the mutual fund industry and affected our money, and also received the 1999 Motivational Book Award for The Courage to Be Rich, administered by Books for a Better Life. As a tribute to Suze's ongoing involvement, in 2002, the organization established The Suze Orman First Book Award, to honor a first-time author of a self-improvement book in any category. In 2003, she was inducted into the Books for a Better Life Award's Hall of Fame in recognition of her ongoing contributions to self-improvement. Suze is the personal finance editor on CNBC, the host of her own national CNBC-TV show, The Suze Orman Show, which airs every weekend, and a contributing editor to O: The Oprah Magazine. She appears regularly on QVC as host of her own "Financial Freedom" hour. Additionally, Suze has joined forces with GE Financial, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GE Capital, to offer "Suze's Choice," a GE Long Term Care Insurance plan tailored to deliver the benefits she believes are essential when considering the purchase of this type of insurance. Ms. Orman, a Certified Financial Planner(r) professional, directed the Suze Orman Financial Group from 1987-1997, served as Vice President of Investments for Prudential Bache Securities from 1983-87, and from 1980-83, was an Account Executive at Merrill Lynch. A sought-after speaker, Suze Orman has lectured widely throughout the United States and South Africa, helping people change the way they think about money. Ms. Orman has been featured in such major magazines and newspapers as Newsweek, People, The New Yorker, Modern Maturity, The New Republic, USA Today, The New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune. She has also appeared on Dateline, CNN, MSNBC, Good Morning America, The View, and numerous times on Larry King Live and The Oprah Winfrey Show.