Stephanie Gorton

Stephanie Gorton wrote The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry that Brought Birth Control to America, a finalist for the Plutarch Award for the best biography of the year, and Citizen Reporters: S. S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine that Rewrote America, a finalist for the Sperber Prize for journalism biography. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Smithsonian, and Paris Review Daily, among other publications, and she has appeared on radio shows including On Point and Slate Political Gabfest. Lebanese American by birth, Gorton lives in Providence, Rhode Island.