Anna David is the author of the novels Party Girl (HarperCollins, 2007) and Bought (HarperCollins, 2009), and the editor of the anthology Reality Matters (HarperCollins, 2010). Falling for Me, her memoir about following the advice in Helen Gurley Brown’s 1962 book Sex and the Single Girl, was released by Harper in October.

Party Girl, which has been translated into Italian and Russian, is about a reckless 20-something who’s hired to write a column documenting her exploits just as she cleans up her act. The screen rights were purchased by Sony. Bought is a fictionalized version of an investigative piece David did for Details Magazine about prostitution in Hollywood. Reality Matters features essays about reality television shows by such writers as James Frey, Toby Young, Neil Strauss, and Jerry Stahl, among others; the book has been selected as course material for media studies and communications courses at universities across the country.

A professional member of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), Anna holds an Associate in Sex Education Certificate from The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality and was the host of the Playboy Network show Swing. She was the sex and relationship expert on G4’s Attack of the Show for over three years and has been featured numerous times on The Today Show, Hannity, Red Eye (Fox News) and CNN’s Showbiz Tonight, as well as on various other programs on Fox News, NBC, MSNBC, CTV, MTV News, VH1 and E — usually either doling out relationship advice, offering incisive cultural commentary or simply discussing the personal lives of celebrities she doesn’t know. Her Sirius radio show, Sex Files, was the network’s number-one specialty show, and Axe Body Spray, Date.com and Guthy-Renker are among the companies that have hired her for spokesperson jobs.

A contributor to The Daily Beast, Details and Maxim, Anna is currently the Executive Editor of the addiction and recovery website The Fix and is considered an addiction expert by colleges across the country who hire her to come give lectures about addiction and recovery. She’s been on staff at Premiere and Parenting, a fulltime freelancer for People, a contracted reporter for Us Weekly and a sex columnist for Razor. Her celebrity cover stories, first-person essays, and reported pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The LA Times, Vanity Fair, Cosmo, Redbook, Self, Stuff, TV Guide, Movieline, Women’s Health, Ocean Drive, Vegas, Esquire UK, Teen Vogue, Variety, LA Confidential, Tatler and Emmy, among others. One of her first-person sex stories for Playboy was made into the reality show pilot Better Luck Next Town for TBS.

Anna’s areas of expertise are addiction and recovery, sex and relationships, and writing long bios.