Authors: Nonfiction

Henry Alford

Henry Alford is a humorist and journalist who has written for The New Yorker for more than two decades. A former columnist for The New York Times and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, he is the author of seven books, including his new book,  I Dream of Joni:...

Harry Bliss

Harry Bliss is an internationally syndicated cartoonist and cover artist for the New Yorker magazine. His self titled Cartoon 'Bliss' appears in newspapers throughout the United States, Japan and Canada. He is an internationally syndicated cartoonist and cover artist for the New Yorker magazine and his self titled...

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,...

Adam Higginbotham

Adam Higginbotham is a British-American writer born in England in 1968. His first book, Midnight in Chernobyl, was published in 2019. The winner of the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and the Colby Award for Military and Intelligence History, Midnight in Chernobyl was named one of...

Carol Joffee

Carol Joffee is a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and a professor emerita of sociology at the U. of California, Davis. She is the author of After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe but Not Abortion and the coauthor...

Paul Lisicky

Writer Paul Lisicky 2025 Paul Lisicky is the author of seven books including Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell, Later: My Life at the Edge of the World (one of NPR's Best Books of 2020), as well as The Narrow Door (a New...

Tiya Miles

Tiya Miles is the author of eight books, including four prize-winning histories about race and slavery in the American past. Her latest work is the biography Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People. Her 2021 National Book Award winner, All That She Carried: The...

Nell Irvin Painter

Nell Irvin Painter is a leading historian of the United States. She is the Edwards Professor of American History Emerita at Princeton University.she is the award-winning author of many books, including  Sojourner Truth, Southern History Across the Color Line, Creating Black Americans, The History of White People, Standing at...

Adam Plunkett

Adam Plunkett is a a literary critic, has received fellowship support from organizations such as the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Leon Levy Center for Biography. His new book is Love and Need: the Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry, is a demanding and rewarding biography of Frost...

Laurie Gwen Shapiro

Laurie Gwen Shapiro is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist whose writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Daily Beast, Slate, and others. Shapiro is the 2021 winner of the Damn History Award for “The Improbable Journey of Dorothy Parker’s Ashes”...

Sebastian Smee

Sebastian Smee is a Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic at the Washington Post and the author of The Art of Rivalry. Formerly the chief art critic at the Boston Globe and national art critic for the Australian, he has also written for the Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Financial Times, and the...

Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder

Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder is the author of Mother, Creature, Kin. She grew up in the Great Plains of Nebraska and Oklahoma. After receiving her masters of theological studies at Harvard Divinity School, her writing became focused on the confluence of relationship to place with experiences of the sacred. From 2017-2022,...

Helen Whybrow

Helen Whybrow  is an Editor-at-Large for Milkweed Editions. She was the publisher of an imprint of W. W. Norton for many years before becoming a freelance editor and Editor-at-Large for Orion Magazine. With a focus on creative nonfiction, Helen has worked with dozens of well-known writers over the years,...