Jenny Lyn Bader is a writer of plays, essays, and whimsy.

Selected Works

New York Times "Week in Review"
•Why We Chitchat
Post-9/11 Small Talk Looms Large
•How to Land the Bachelor
Primetime dating strategies!
The Male-Female Dictionary!
•He Meant, She Meant: The Definitive Male-Female Dictionary - What Men Think They're Saying, What Women Really Mean
"Isn't this the funniest book ever?" -WCKG

"A Berlitz crash course in the female language" -Men's Health

"Very Cute and Very Funny!"-CNN

"The most extraordinary invention for sex life since The Pill"-actual blurb on back of Italian edition, unattributed

Quick Links!

Order BEST 10-MINUTE PLAYS, including PAST LIVES, THIRD FIRST BLIND DOUBLE DATE, and ONE NIGHT AT YOUR LOCAL SUPERSTORE!
Listen to ARTSCAPE! (a lovely radio show, jenny lyn is a guest)
Order UNDER THIRTY - a bookful of strong roles for young actors, it includes NONE OF THE ABOVE
Bader vs. Kramer!
Bader on Feiffer
Visit Jenny Lyn's Dramatists Guild site and compare Authors Guild vs. Dramatists Guild interfaces... hm!
Order BEST 10-MINUTE PLAYS, including THE POPCORN SONATA
See Jenny Lyn wear the wrong color on CNN!
Buy the Male-Female Dictionary!
Read a Q&A with superheroine Breakup Girl!
Buy LEADING WOMEN, a book that excerpts "Manhattan Casanova." A womanizer finally meets his match.
Order HEAVEN AND HELL an anthology of related plays that includes Jenny Lyn's one-act "Worldness," about a jailed tree-sitter
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But where's Jenny Lyn's husband's web site?
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Order NEXT or read the essay "Larger Than Life"
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