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Jean Chatzky at Money does a great job, and she’s also on NBC. Television gives you a lot of exposure. It’s going to be bigger than ever.

Q: If you succeeded Sylvia Porter as the most famous personal finance writer, who do you see becoming the next Jane Bryant Quinn?

A: There are so many people doing this now that it’s very hard.

For ten years, she worked for CBS News, first on The CBS Morning News, then on The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.

And then there was my role model, and that was Brenda Starr. I do think that I was helpful in getting the magazines to run updates on their recommendations. They asked me if I would mind going by my initials so nobody would know. I was pretty dumb because I had assumed, wrongly, that even though I didn’t know any woman who worked, it was choice.

 A comprehensive guide to personal finance, it was first published in 1991 and has been in print ever since.  The most recent edition, Making the Most of Your Money NOW:  The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy, was published in 2009. 

She is also the author of Smart and Simple Financial Strategies for Busy People, her personal list of the best, low-cost strategies for saving more money, finding good insurance, planning for college tuition, investing for retirement, and other personal financial topics.  She wrote her first bestseller, Everyone’s Money Book, in 1978.

An Emmy award winner, Jane worked extensively in television.

It was that kind of story. Brenda Starr loomed large in my life. It was before the Civil Rights and Equal Pay Act.

I was at Newsweek not very long before I realized I wouldn’t be anything but a researcher. But the first boomers are starting to look at the maintenance phase and the drawing down phase. I just think it’s a really clear, solid magazine.

And then I got promoted to the clip desk, and then you went into research. A friend at Look suggested I read the American Banker to find good stories. If you make a mistake like putting your stock in WorldCom, you’re facing a whole different kind of world. She has two sons, Matthew Ostrowski and Justin Quinn. I didn’t know any woman who worked.

Quinn was co-founder, editor and general manager of McGraw-Hill's "Personal Finance Letter." She was a reporter, then a co-editor of the consumer publication, "The Insider's Newsletter," formerly published by Cowles Communications. I didn’t know anyone in journalism.