Gabrielle is a journalist and author of the forthcoming book American Baby: A Mother, A Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption. Her 2013 book examining women’s drinking and the American rehab industry, Her Best-Kept Secret: Why Women Drink—and How They Can Regain Control, was a New York Times bestseller.
Her work on the intersection of health, medicine and culture has appeared in many publications, including the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Daily Beast, Scientific American, Stat, the Washington Post and Propublica.
In her early professional life, Louise liked to unwind with wine. She loved the way it looked in a glass;…