Sharon J. Wohlmuth

Who is Sharon J. Wohlmuth?

Sharon J. Wohlmuth is a prize-winning photographer and co-author of 11 books. Wohlmuth earned her BFA in Photography from Moore College of Art & Design. She is the only photojournalist to make The New York Times bestsellers list three times. After being hired as the second woman photographer for The Philadelphia Inquirer Wohlmuth worked there for 20 years, winning multiple awards including the World Press Photo Competition Feature Award, the Sigma Delta Chi Best Feature Photograph, and was a Nieman Foundation for Journalism finalist at Harvard University. Wohlmuth was also on the Inquirer team which won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Three Mile Island disaster.

In 1994, Wohlmuth teamed up with essayist Carol Saline to produce the book Sisters which spent 63 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. After the runaway success of her first book, Wohlmuth and Saline cooperated to produce two more books in the trilogy, Mothers & Daughters and Best Friends. Wohlmuth has also co-authored six books in the popular Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and, in 2004, released a new 10th anniversary edition of Sisters.