Donna Hanover (born February 13, 1950) is an American journalist, radio and television personality, television producer, and actress, who is the morning show co-host for WOR radio in New York City and who also appears on the Food Network. She was First Lady of New York City as the then-wife of former New York City Mayor and 2008 U.S. presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani.
Is a graduate of Stanford University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism
Former First Lady of The City of New York City.
Daughter, Caroline, born 1989.
Son, Andrew, born 30 January 1986.
Studied political science at Stanford University.
Hanover is the oldest of four girls born to Gwen Kofnovec and her husband, Bob, a Czech immigrant and lieutenant commander in the Navy.
Bachelor of Arts, Stanford University; Master of Science, Columbia University.
Announced engagement to high school sweetheart, Edwin Oster, a partner in the law firm of Barger and Wolen in Newport Beach, CA. The couple were reunited when Oster contacted Hanover to ask if she planned to attend their 30th college reunion. They plan a "bi-coastal" marriage until her children finish high school. (March 2003)
Wrote a book, "My Boyfriend's Back," about how she was reunited with and subsequently married Edwin Oster, after almost 30 years apart. [2004]
Donna Hanover was one of the co-hosts on "Evening Magazine" (1976), a television show created at KDKA studios in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the mid-1970's.
