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Zibby Owens | |
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Born | Elizabeth Schwarzman 1976 (age 47–48) |
Education |
Yale University Harvard University |
Occupation(s) | Podcaster, writer |
Spouses | Andrew Right (
m. 2005–2016)Kyle Owens (
m. 2017) |
Children | 4 |
Parent |
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Website |
zibbyowens |
Elizabeth "Zibby" Owens (née Schwarzman) [1] is an American writer [2] and podcast host based in New York City. [3] Her podcast [4] is called Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books. [5]
Zibby Owens (born Elizabeth Schwarzman) is the daughter of billionaire Stephen A. Schwarzman and Ellen Katz (née Philips). Stephen is a co-founder, chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group, and Ellen a trustee of Northwestern University and the Mount Sinai Medical Center [6] [7]
Her family is Jewish. [8] She grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. [5] Her brother is film producer Teddy Schwarzman. She attended Yale and Harvard Business School. [5]
Owens started the Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books podcast, where she interviews authors. It was started in spring 2018. [5] [9] By December 2019, she had made 200 Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books podcast episodes which had been downloaded a quarter of a million times. [9]
In the spring of 2020, Owens interviewed authors on Instagram [10] and launched an online literary magazine called We Found Time featuring essays written by authors who had been on her podcast. A book called Moms Don't Have Time To: A Quarantine Anthology based on those essays was released in February 2021. [11]
Owens is a member of New York Public Library's advisory council. [5]
In November 2023, Owens withdrew funding her company's sponsorship of the 2023 National Book Award because she felt that a possible call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war by some participating authors "promotes discrimination, in this case of Israel and the Jewish people." [12]
Owens is married to Kyle Owens, a former tennis pro and a film producer. [5] Her first marriage to Andrew Right ended in divorce. [5]