gwendolyn bounds

ABOUT GWENDOLYN BOUNDS

  Gwendolyn (Wendy) Bounds writes and blogs about home improvement and housing for The Wall Street Journal’s Personal Journal and Weekend sections, including penning a first person column called“About the House.” She served as WSJ’s small business editor and columnist from 2004 to 2008 and over the past decade at the paper, has chronicled the rise and fall of companies in many industries including fashion, travel, retail, marketing and media.

  Bounds is a regular on-air contributor to ABC's "Good Morning America" for housing and general consumer economic issues. She appears weekly on CNBC's "The Call" and has been a guest on MSNBC's "Your Business," Fox News' "Fox & Friends" and CNN.

  Bounds' second non-fiction book, "Little Chapel on the River," was published June 28, 2005. The book chronicles her experiences at an old Irish pub in New York's historic Hudson River Valley.

  Her first-person essay "Amid the Ashes, Baby Carriages, Shoes, Family Photos," which she wrote with fellow WSJ reporter Kathryn Kranhold, won the 2002 Front Page Award for September 11th commentary from the Newswoman’s Club of New York.

  In addition to The Wall Street Journal, Bounds has written for several national magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, The Miami Herald, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) and the Herald-Sun (Durham, N.C.) She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a native of North Carolina.

  In 1998, Bounds co-authored the book: "Birds on the Couch: The Bird Shrink's Guide to Keeping Polly from Going Crackers and You Out of the Cuckoo's Nest" with Maryland bird psychologist, Ruth Hanessian.

  She lives in the Hudson River Valley.