Background
Eden was born into a Reform Jewish household.
Eden was born into a Reform Jewish household.
She has also written books on topics concerning faith, sexuality, and spiritual healing. She is the grand-niece of poet Alma Denny. Eden began writing about rock music under the abbreviated name Dawn Eden in 1985 for fanzines, eventually becoming a popular-music historian, writing for Mojo, Salon, New York Press, and Billboard, among others
From 1990 through the early 2000s, she penned liner notes for more than seventy Civil Defense reissues.
Artists she interviewed include Harry Nilsson, and Delegate Shannon, and Lesley Gore. She spent years researching and championing the music and life of sunshine popular progenitor Curt Boettcher and wrote liner notes for several collections of his work.
She worked as a copy editor at the New York Post from early 2002 to January 2005. She was forced to leave the Post after edits she made to a story about in vitro fertilization revealed her pro-life sympathies.
The firing led the New York Observer to publish a front-page profile of her by George Gurley, "Eden in Exile."
Eden was hired in April 2005 by the New York Daily News as assistant news editor of its newly relaunched National Edition.
She later became deputy news editor for the newspaper"s new weekly regional editions. Eden left the Daily News in 2007 to move to Washington, District of Columbia, where, in 2008, she was successfully treated for thyroid cancer. In 1999, Eden had a "born-again" experience that led her to become a Protestant Christian.
Her book The Thrill of the Chaste was published that December.
She promoted it with public talks and with appearances on EWTN and on National Broadcasting Company"s Today Show. In May 2010, she received an Master of Arts Three months later, after Alice von Hildebrand cited Eden"s research in her own critique of West, Catholic News Agency made the thesis available for download.
Her second book, My Peace I Give You: Healing Sexual Wounds with the Help of the Saints, was published in April 2012 by Avenue Maria Press. In November 2012, on the Eternal Word Television Network television program "The Journey Home", she told the story of her conversion to the Catholic faith and spoke about healing from childhood sexual abuse.
The Thrill of the Chaste (Catholic Edition), a revised version of Eden"s 2006 work, was issued in January 2015.
Her fourth book, Remembering God"s Mercy: Redeem the Past and Free Yourself from Painful Memories, was published by Avenue Maria Press in February 2016. She discussed the book in a 2016 interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez at National Review. She lives in the Chicago area, where she is currently completing a Doctor of Sacred Theology degree at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake.
In theology from Dominican House of Studies after defending her master"s thesis, a critique of Christopher West"s presentation of Pope John Paul II"s theology of the body.