Cookie Lommel

Cookie Lommel
Born 1970
Cleveland, Ohio
Occupation Writer

Cookie Lommel is an American author, biographer, film producer, and activist.

Early Life

Cookie Lommel was born in 1970 in Cleveland, Ohio.[1] She began her career in the entertainment industry in 1981.[2] Early on she worked as a journalist for Cashbox magazine and Radio & Records magazine.[3] She has also worked as an entertainment industry reporter at CNN[4] and as entertainment editor at Teen Magazine.[5]

Activism

In 1992 she was named the executive director of the Jewish Labor Committee's Western region.[1] In 1993 Lommel founded Operation Unity,[6] a non-profit organization that funded the travel of inner city minority students to live on an Israeli Kibbutz.[1]

Author

Cookie Lommel authored the 2001[7] book The History of Rap Music,[8] and Black Filmmakers in 2002.[9] She is also the author of unauthorized biographies for Russell Simmons,[10] Arnold Schwarzenegger,[11] James Oglethorpe,[12] Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., Arthur Miller,[1] Robert Church,[13] Madame C.J. Walker,[14] and Mary Church Terrell.[15]

Personal Life

She was married to actor Ulli Lommel between 1988 and his death in 2017.[16]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Tugend, Tom (14 March 2004). "One-woman bridge" – via LA Times.
  2. ↑ "Cash Box". Cash Box Pub. Co. 30 November 1991 – via Internet Archive.
  3. ↑ Lommel, Cookie (13 October 1995). "Robert Church". Holloway House Publishing – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ Editor, CYNTHIA DETTELBACH. "A Jewish connection - in her soul and in her jobs".
  5. ↑ Lommel, Cookie; D, Chuck (13 October 2018). "Russell Simmons". Infobase Publishing – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ "CNN - Teen-agers find new direction - Nov. 10, 1995". www.cnn.com.
  7. ↑ "African-American Children's Books".
  8. ↑ Gelfand, Dale Evva (13 October 2018). "Sean Combs". Infobase Publishing – via Google Books.
  9. ↑ Jaynes, Gerald D. (1 February 2005). "Encyclopedia of African American Society". SAGE Publications – via Google Books.
  10. ↑ Gaines, Ann Graham; Majors, Reggie (1 July 2009). "The Hip-Hop Scene: The Stars, the Fans, the Music". Enslow Publishing, LLC – via Google Books.
  11. ↑ Zitelmann, Rainer (13 October 2018). "Proč jsou úspěšní lidé úspěšní". Grada Publishing a.s. – via Google Books.
  12. ↑ Marsh, Carole (1 November 2003). "Heroes & Helpers Adventure Diaries-#6 Hannah, the Humanitarian Aid Worker!". Gallopade International – via Google Books.
  13. ↑ Fradin, Dennis B.; Fradin, Judith Bloom (13 October 2018). "Fight On!: Mary Church Terrell's Battle for Integration". Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – via Google Books.
  14. ↑ Stille, Darlene R. (13 October 2018). "Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur and Millionaire". Capstone – via Google Books.
  15. ↑ Williams, Karen G.; Queeley, Andrea (13 October 2018). "Study Guide for Let Nobody Turn Us Around". Rowman & Littlefield – via Google Books.
  16. ↑ III, Harris M. Lentz (30 April 2018). "Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2017". McFarland – via Google Books.
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