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Brigid Schulte (born 1962) is an American journalist and writer and author of "Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play when No One has the Time," published in 2014 by Sarah Crichton Books/ Farrar Straus & Giroux. The book explores the cultural and historical roots of time pressure and the great speed up of modern life and unearths the Bright Spots where change is already underway.

Early career

Schulte grew up in Oregon and graduated from the University of Portland with degrees in English Literature, Communications/Journalism and Modern Languages. She studied French and German, spending a year in Salzburg, Austria. After working and living in Japan as a teacher, Schulte attended Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in New York City and concentrated on style and magazine writing and photojournalism. She began writing for newspapers, including the Casper Star-Tribune in Wyoming, The Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette in South Carolina before moving to Washington, DC, where she wrote for the Seattle Times, San Francisco Examiner, Anchorage Daily News and other newspapers for States News Service. She later worked in the Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau as the Washington correspondant for the State Newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, and as a national reporter writing enterprise and narrative stories about politics, public health, the military. She won several news and feature writing awards, and received a xxxx regional reporting fellowship. She began writing for The Washington Post in 1999.

The Washington Post

Writing Overwhelmed

Selected Work

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