Authors: Nonfiction

Patrick Bringley

Patrick Bringley worked for a decade as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His new memoir, All the Beauty in the World, has been praised in the New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, Times of London, and elsewhere, and he has been interviewed by the New...

David Gessner

David Gessner is the author of thirteen books that blend a love of nature, humor, memoir, and environmentalism, including the New York Times bestselling All the Wild That Remains, Return of the Osprey, Sick of Nature and Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt’s American Wilderness. His new book is A...

Diana Goetsch

Diana Goetsch is an American poet and essayist, author of eight poetry collections, the acclaimed memoir This Body I Wore, and dozens of features and columns. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, LitHub, Tricycle, The American Scholar, The LA Times, The Chicago Tribune,...

Nikhil Goyal

Nikhil Goyal is a sociologist who has taught at New York University and author of Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty. He served as senior policy advisor on education and children for Chairman Senator Bernie Sanders on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor,...

Ann Hood

Ann Hood is the author of over a dozen novels, including the bestsellers The Knitting Circle, The Obituary Writer, The Book That Matters Most, and Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine; and several memoirs, including the bestsellers Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love and Food and Comfort: A Journey...

Chloe Cooper Jones

Chloe Cooper Jones is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine. In 2020, Chloé was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Feature Writing for “Fearing for His Life,” a profile of Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed the killing of Eric Garner. She was the recipient of the...

Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder graduated from Harvard and studied at the University of Iowa. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and many other literary prizes. His new book, Rough Sleepers, is the inspiring story of a doctor who helped to create a...

Martha McPhee

Martha McPhee is the author of the forthcoming memoir, Omega Farm. Her novels include An Elegant Woman, Dear Money, L’America, Gorgeous Lies, and Bright Angel Time.  Her work has been honored with fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and in 2002,...

Maud Newton

Maud Newton has written for The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, The New York Times Book Review, and Oxford American and is the author of Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award John Leonard Prize. She grew up in Miami...

Peter Orner

Peter Orner is the author of the novels The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo and Love and Shame and Love and the story collections Esther Stories, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge, and Maggie Brown & Others, two collections of essays, Still No Word From You and Am I...

Pam Petro

Pam Petro is an author, artist and educator living in Northampton. She has written three place­-based creative nonfiction books as well as articles and essays for many publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Granta and The Paris Review. She was made an honorary fellow of the University of Wales and has...

Jonathan Rosen

Jonathan Rosen is the author of two novels: Eve’s Apple and Joy Comes in the Morning, and two non-fiction books: The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey Between Worlds and The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature. His new book is The Best Minds: A...

Angela Saini

Angela Saini is an award-winning British science journalist and broadcaster based in New York. Her previous book, Superior: The Return of Race Science, was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and named a book of the year by Nature, the Financial Times, and NPR’s Science Friday. Her...

Liz Scheier

Liz Scheier is a former Penguin Random House editor who worked in publishing and content development for many years, including at Barnes & Noble.com and Amazon. She writes book reviews and feature articles for Publishers Weekly. She is now a product developer living in Washington, D.C., with her husband,...

Will Schwalbe

Will Schwalbe has worked in book publishing and is currently an editor at Macmillan; has worked in digital media; and as a journalist, writing for various publications, including The New York Times and the South China Morning Post. He is the New York Times best-selling author of We Should...

Jeff Sharlet

Jeff Sharlet is the New York Times best-selling author or editor of nine books, including his new instant bestseller The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, and The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, which was adapted into a Netflix documentary series. His reporting...

Robert Watson

Robert Watson is a historian and political com­men­ta­tor with over 40 books to his name, including Americas’s First Crisis, which received a 2014 IPPY Gold Medal for his­to­ry, and two new books, America’s First Plague and When Washington Burned. He has been inter­viewed thou­sands of times by media out­lets through­out the...