Authors: Nonfiction

Martha Ackmann

Martha Ackmann is a journalist, author and editor who writes about women that have changed America. Her works have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times and many other publications around the country. A frequent contributor to the op-ed pages of the nation’s...

Steve Almond

Steve Almond is the author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Against Football and Candyfreak. His short stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, the Best American Mysteries, and the Pushcart Prize anthologies. His essays and reviews have appeared in...

Sam Brakeley

Sam Brakeley is the author of three books including most recently Skiing with Henry Knox, released in October of 2019. He’s also an avid backpacker, skier, canoeist and adventurer who has logged over 8000 miles (and counting) of multi-week expeditions. He lives in Vermont.  

Sarah Chayes

Sarah Chayes's remarkable trajectory has led her from reporting from Paris for National Public Radio and covering the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan to running a soap factory in downtown Kandahar in the midst of a reigniting insurgency. She went on to advise the topmost levels of the...

Ezekiel Emanuel

Ezekiel Emanuel is an oncologist and author of two new books, The Trillion Dollar Revolution and Which Country Has the World’s Best Healthcare?. Dr. Emanuel’s recent publications include the books Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly...

Holly George-Warren

Holly George-Warren is an award-winning writer, editor, producer, and music consultant. She has contributed to more than two dozen books about rock and roll, including The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock, and The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of...

Sadia Hassan

Sadia Hassan is a Somali American essayist and poet, and is an MFA Candidate at the University of Mississippi. She is the winner of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation’s 2020 Award for College Writers in Poetry. Her essay "Silence is a Lonely Country" was nominated for the 2019...

Jennifer Haupt

Jennifer Haupt is journalist, author, and writing instructor with more than 25 years of experience helping people to mine their stories. Her interviews, articles and essays have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, The Rumpus, Psychology Today, Travel & Leisure, The Seattle Times, Spirituality & Health, The Sun, and...

Alden Jones

Alden Jones was born in New York, raised in New Jersey, and educated at Brown University, New York University, and the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her critical memoir, The Wanting Was a Wilderness, was published  in May 2020. Her first book, The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler’s Memoir from Costa Rica...

Jessica Keener

Jessica Keener is the author of the nationally acclaimed novels Strangers in Budapest and Night Swim and a collection of award-winning short stories, Women in Bed. Her work has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Redbook, the Boston Globe, Agni, and other publications, and she has taught English literature...

Maya Shanbhag Lang

Maya Shanbhag Lang is the author of What We Carry (Random House), which was named a New York Times Book Review Editors' Pick, an Amazon Best Book of 2020, and a Parade Magazine Best Memoir of 2020. She is also the author of The Sixteenth of June (Simon &...

Arthur J. Magida

Arthur J. Magida is writer-in-residence at the University of Baltimore and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. He has been a columnist for Beliefnet.com, a contributing correspondent to PBS's Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, senior editor of the Baltimore Jewish Times, environmental reporter for National Journal, and a writer and editor for Ralph...

Sebastian Matthews

Sebastian Matthews is the author of a new book of essays, Beyond Repair; a memoir, In My Father’s Footsteps;  three books of poetry, and the collage novel The Life & Times of American Crow.  His hybrid collection of poetry and prose, Beginner’s Guide to a Head-on Collision, won the...

Marta McDowell

Marta McDowell teaches landscape history and horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden and consults for private clients and public gardens. Her latest book is Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life, published by Timber Press, who also published The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder, New York Times bestselling All the Presidents'...

Mary Morris

Mary Morris is the author of numerous works of fiction, including the novels The Jazz Palace, A Mother’s Love, and House Arrest, and of nonfiction, including the travel memoir classic Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone and her new book All the Way to the Tigers....

Lynne Olson

Lynne Olson is a New York Times bestselling author of eight books of history, most of which deal in some way with World War II and Britain’s crucial role in that conflict. Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has called Olson “our era’s foremost chronicler of World War...

Roger Rosenblatt 

Roger Rosenblatt is the author of six off-Broadway plays and nineteen books, including Lapham Rising, Making Toast, Kayak Morning, The Boy Detective, and his new memoir, Cold Moon. He is the recipient of the 2015 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement and he lives in New York City

Jessica Pearce Rotondi

Jessica Pearce Rotondi is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. Her work has been published by The History Channel, TIME, Vogue, Reader’s Digest, Salon, Atlas Obscura, HuffPost, and Refinery29. Previously, she was a senior editor at HuffPost and a staff member at the PEN American Center, the world’s...

Jeff Tamarkin

Jeff Tamarkin is the former editor of Goldmine, CMJ, Relix, and Global Rhythm. As a writer, he has contributed to the New York Daily News, Jazz Times, Boston Phoenix, Harp, Mojo, Newsday, Billboard, and many other publications. He is the author of the book Got a Revolution: The Turbulent...