Biography

Andrea Sachs is a former English major whose dreams were fulfilled when she became TIME's publishing reporter in 1995. What could be better than interviewing authors, reading fabulous new books, and going to publishing parties?

Sachs, a senior reporter from suburban Detroit, has been at TIME since 1984. She has a master's degree in journalism from the Columbia Journalism School.

In an earlier life, she was a government lawyer in Washington, D.C.

Another Sachs enthusiasm: her two beautiful shelter cats, Freddy and Sara.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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