Katherine Bouton was a senior editor at The New York Times for 22 years, most of them as deputy editor at the Sunday Magazine. She began her career at The New Yorker, leaving at age 30 to pursue a career as a writer. Shortly after leaving The New Yorker, she suffered from sudden hearing loss, which progressed over the next three decades to profound deafness. With a cochlear implant and a hearing aid, she was able to keep the hearing loss a secret (from most people) until she left the Times in December 2009. Shouting Won’t Help, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013, is a memoir of living and working with a hidden disability. A companion book, Living Better with Hearing Loss, will be published by Workman in June 2015. She blogs weekly on the AARP website. Her personal blog Hear Better With Hearing Loss appears weekly. An older blog: What I Hear appeared on the Psychology Today website and has the archives for earlier posts.

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