User:Mspsegal

P Segal (Roberta Pizzimenti)is a San Francisco writer and therapist. She won her first adult writing competition at age 12, and graduated with honors from Lowell High School. She received her BA from UCLA's film school. She freelanced as a journalist after leaving school and was involved in San Francisco arts underground events. The current incarnation of Burning Man at Nevada's Black Rock Desert was planned in her living room for the first three years. Around the same time, she started The Marcel Proust Support Group of San Francisco, as an event for the San Francisco Cacophony Society, to get friends to read Proust. Afterwards, she remained fascinated by the author and read everything she could about him; she started a fanzine called "Proust Said That," which was a general interest magazine about all the topics featured in Proust's work, with his commentaries in the text. It was the first magazine on the Internet, and it had as many as 250,000 weekly readers.

In 1999, P Segal opened a restaurant in San Francisco, Caffe Proust, that closed a year after the 9/11 economic downturn. Throughout her varied life, she has done many things: private investigator, restaurateur, academic editor, children's book author, therapist, and life coach. She currently writes a blog about mystery novels (femmenoir.org), and has written novels and memoirs.