Liz Pulliam Weston is the most-read personal finance columnist on the Internet and an award-winning, nationally syndicated personal finance expert who can make the most complex money topics understandable to the average reader.

Weston is the author of Easy Money: How to Simplify Your Finances and Get What You Want Out of Life, which Publishers' Weekly praised as a "practical, easy-to-understand guide to taking control of personal finances and establishing financial security”; and Deal with Your Debt: The Right Way to Manage Your Bills and Pay Off What You Owe. Her first book, Your Credit Score: How to Fix, Improve and Protect the 3-Digit Number that Shapes Your Financial Future, is the best-selling book on credit scoring. Weston is also a contributor to The Experts’ Guide to the Baby Years.

Weston’s columns run twice a week on the website MSN Money, which reaches more than 12 million readers each month. Millions read her question-and-answer column “Money Talk,” which appears in newspapers throughout the country, including The Los Angeles Times, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Palm Beach Post, The Portland Oregonian, The Newark Star-Ledger, and Stars & Stripes.

Weston appears regularly on numerous television and radio programs, including NPR's “Talk of the Nation” and “All Things Considered,” American Public Media's Marketplace Money, and The Today Show. She was for several years a weekly commentator on CNBC's Power Lunch.

Most recently, she has written The Ten Commandments of Money: Survive and Thrive in the New Economy, which was published in December of 2011.

Beginning her career at the Seattle Times, Weston moved on to the Anchorage Daily News. As author of an article on fetal alcohol syndrome, she was a part of the writing team that won a Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service in 1989 for coverage of the alcoholism epidemic among native Alaskans. While at the Orange County Register, she was part of a three-member writing team that won a prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for coverage of the comparator systems penny stock scandal. In 1998, she joined the business staff of the Los Angeles Times and began authoring Money Talk. Four years later, she left the Times to write for MSN.

Weston won a 2007 Clarion Award for her MSN series on financial benchmarks. Her MSN columns also have won four Certificates of Merit from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

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