Broadcast journalist, talk show host, and author, Kelly Lange is currently working as host of two shows to be produced by Hollywood National Studios -- America, a half-hour national daily show which will originate in a different city every week, and The Great American Garage Sale, a game show based on collectibles with Internet merchandising.  In addition, she has recently completed a pilot for the TV Guide Network called Book Club with Kelly & Co., a one-hour show to air nationally, Mondays through Fridays, on a new network to be launched by TV Guide called The Literary Network.  As host, Kelly interacts with three different authors daily, in a format much like The View.  Her guests on the pilot were authors Sue Grafton, Georgia Durante and Paula Woods.

 
Lange is a frequent weekend guest host with a three-hour talk show on KABC Radio in Los Angeles.  Her third mystery novel, The Reporter, was published by Warner Books in March, 2002, and she is currently writing her fourth novel, Dead File, to be published by Warner Books in March of 2003.  She also writes and voices radio commercial campaigns, and is a much sought-after master of ceremonies, motivational speaker, and panel moderator.
 
Lange is one of the most celebrated and recognized personalities in Southern California.  From 1999 through March of  2001 she co-hosted Woman-2-Woman, a one-hour news/talk program airing weekdays on CBS-2 in Los Angeles.  She was also the creator and host of The Kelly Lange Show, a dynamic 3-hour radio talk program dedicated to the premise of self-reinvention, which aired Sundays on KRLA in Los Angeles from 1998 through 2000.  And her 28-year history with NBC-4, the NBC-owned station in Los Angeles, from 1971 through January of 1999, made her an icon in local television news, and a most familiar household name.  At NBC-4, Lange was a weekday anchor for the “Channel 4 News” in various time slots, including the 4PM, 5PM, 6PM and 11PM news.

Through the course of the Gulf war, she co-anchored a one-hour daily news update which aired weekdays from 3PM to 4pm.  She also wrote and reported numerous documentaries, mini-series, news stories and news specials that aired on NBC-4 and on other NBC-owned stations.
 
Lange and comedy writer Gail Parent co-hosted NBC-4’s live, weekday morning talk show Kelly & Gail, which premiered in October of 1990.  And for ten years, from 1971 to 1981, Lange co-hosted Channel 4’s 90-minute live magazine show Sunday, co-hosting with Tom Snyder, Tom Brokaw, and Pat Sajak.  In 1976, she hosted a half-hour daytime game show called Take My Advice, which ran weekdays at noon on the NBC network, featuring celebrity couples giving advice to contestants.  Throughout the 80’s, she co-hosted NBC’s world-wide coverage of the Rose Parade from Pasadena on New Year’s Day for ten years, with Michael Landon and Bryant Gumbel.  She co-hosted coverage of many other network parades around the country, from the Portland Rose Parade to the Cotton Bowl Parade to the Sun Devils Parade in Tempe, Arizona, with Willard Scott. 

Also throughout the 80’s, for ten years Lange filled in for Jane Pauly several weeks a year as co-host of the TODAY show in New York.  During that same period, she also substituted for Tom Snyder as host of his TOMORROW show in Los Angeles.  And the year the actors were on strike, Lange co-hosted the national EMMY AWARDS show with Dick Van Patton.
 
The recipient of numerous honors, Lange’s awards include the Emmy for Outstanding Achievement As a News Anchorperson, and several other Emmys and Los Angeles Press Club awards for best news series, best news reporting, and best writing.  While Lange anchored the “Channel 4 News,” her shows received several Golden Mike and Emmy awards for Best News Broadcast.  She was honored with the Genii award, presented by the American Women in Radio and Television, joining the ranks of recipients Lucille Ball, Mary Tyler Moore and Candace Bergen.  She was named a recipient of the St. Augustine Award for Alumni Achievement from Merrimack College in Massachusetts.  And Lange was given the coveted  Governor’s Award by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 1999.

Lange began her broadcast career as a helicopter news and traffic reporter for KABC Radio in Los Angeles.  She also hosted a three-hour talk radio show on KABC, served as a reporter with KABC-TV, and joined KNBC-TV in February, 1971.  She was one of the first women TV reporters in Los Angeles, and was the first female anchor on any of the NBC-owned TV stations.
 
Kelly Lange’s first novel, Trophy Wife, was published by Simon & Schuster in 1995.  Her second novel, Gossip, came out in 1998, also from Simon & Schuster.  She is now publishing with Warner Books, who are planning a new series featuring her television newswoman/sleuth Maxi Poole.  Her character walks the author’s real-life walk, and is smart, funny, lively, inventive, and irreverent; often bending the rules, Maxi says and does things that Lange herself could never do in real life and still hang on to her jobs.
 
Kelly Lange was born in New York, and graduated with honors from Merrimack College in Massachusetts.  She resides in Beverly Hills, California.