Leslie Brody (born 1952) is an American author. Born in the Bronx, New York in and brought up on Long Island, Brody went to grade school in Riverhead and high school in Massapequa, NY. At 17 years old she left home to become an underground press reporter for the Berkeley Tribe. A year later, she set off to travel around Europe. From 1971-1976, Brody lived in London and Amsterdam, sampling various hippie occupations. She returned to California in the late 70s and worked as a librarian both at the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science, and for the Sierra Club, while attending college at San Francisco State University.