Karen Christensen is an American author, social critic, and entrepreneur who cofounded Berkshire Publishing Group in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in 1998, after working in London at Blackwell Scientific Publications and Faber & Faber. She is owner and CEO of Berkshire Publishing, and co-author of The Great Good Place II, the sequel to sociologist Ray Oldenburg's influential book in which Oldenburg first coined the term third place. == Early life == Christensen's family came from the Americ…