Letitia Baldrige

Etiquette Expert
Author, New Manners for New Times
Chief of Staff, 1961-1963 for
First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy

Letitia Baldrige began writing on manners and protocol during her diplomatic service in 1949, and she has been hailed on the cover of Time magazine as "America's leading arbiter of manners."

Before she died in October 2012, she wrote over 20 books on manners, entertaining, interior design and style as well as four autobiographies. She was a partner of Baldrige & Lewris (formerly Letitia Baldrige Enterprises, Inc., established 1964).