Our authors have won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, National Book Critics Circle Award, Financial Times Book of the Year Award, and McKinsey Business Book of the Year, PEN/Hemingway, Pushcart Prize, Whiting Writer’s Award, Nobel Peace Prize, as well as the Tony, Grammy, Emmy, and Academy awards.
Your Favorite Scary Movie
Ashley Cullins is a multi-faceted journalist with more than a decade of experience, and is currently Senior Business Editor for esteemed entertainment industry trade The Hollywood Reporter. After graduating with a Master's Degree in Journalism from Northwestern University's prestigious Medill School, Ashley began her career in broadcast news before moving to Los Angeles and making the jump to print. Over the years, she has covered everything from high-stakes litigation and emerging business trends to human interest features. In 2021, she published two oral histories on “Scream” and Wes Craven to celebrate the film's 25th anniversary.
Emily Cunningham is an English marine biologist and award-winning ocean conservationist. Recognised as a global 30 under 30 environmental leader, she has over a decade of experience at the forefront of ocean conservation efforts across our blue planet. Emily is currently working on her first book; an exploration of what the ocean of tomorrow could look like and how we all can play our part in making it a reality.
VAGABOND
Tim Curry is an actor and singer best known for his performances in films including “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” “Annie,” “Legend,” “Clue,” “It,” “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,” and “Muppet Treasure Island.” He has been nominated for three Tony Awards and two Olivier Awards — including for his role in “Spamalot” — and is an Emmy Award winner.
Wayne Curtis, freelance journalist and contributing editor at The Atlantic, is the author of The Last Great Walk: The True Story of a 1,000-Mile Walk from New York to San Francisco and Why It Matters Today (Rodale). He has received the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year Award and a gold Lowell Thomas Award from the Society of American Travel Writers.
Cathy Curtis, a former writer for The Los Angeles Times, is the author of Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter (Oxford University Press). She majored in philosophy at Smith College and holds a master’s degree in art history from the University of California, Berkeley. She was elected vice president of Biographers International Organization in 2014.
With Ratha Chaupoly, Daitz founded Num Pang sandwich chain in New York City. They’ve been awarded the "Best Sandwich Chain" by the Village Voice and" Best Sandwich" by Zagat’s.
David Daley is an award-winning journalist, the bestselling author of RATF**KED: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count and UNRIGGED: How Americans AreBattling Back to Save Democracy, and one of the most sought-after writers by editors, op-ed pages and media bookers to help explain the state of the nation, the voting rights crisis, and the despair of democracy. He and his work have appeared and been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, CNN, Slate, NPR, MSNBC, Comedy Central, and many others. Currently a Senior Fellow at both FairVote and the Arnold Schwarzenegger Institute at the University of Southern California, he is the former editor in chief of Salon.
Churchill's D-Day: The British Bulldog's Fateful Hours During the Normandy Invasion
Victory To Defeat: The British Army 1918-40
Boots on the Ground: Britain and her Army since 1945
Leading from the Front: The Autobiography
General Lord Richard Dannatt was commissioned into The Green Howards regiment in 1971. He served with the 1st Battalion in Northern Ireland (where he won the Military Cross), Cyprus and Germany and commanded the Battalion in the Airmobile role from 1989 to 1991. From 1994 to 1996 he commanded 4th Armoured Brigade in Germany and Bosnia. He took command of the 3rd (United Kingdom) Division in January 1999, also serving in Kosovo that year as Commander British Forces. In 2000 he returned to Bosnia as the Deputy Commander Operations of the Stabilisation Force, and from 2001 to 2002 he was the Assistant Chief of the General Staff in the Ministry of Defence before taking command of NATO's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps. In 2005 he became Commander-in-Chief, Land Command.
Richard Dannatt became Chief of the General Staff in 2006, leading the British Army during its most challenging time in the post-war era as it fought two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He handed over as Chief on 28th August 2009, forty years to the day from when he first joined the Army. In 2009 HM The Queen appointed him Constable of the Tower of London and in 2010 he was appointed as a Crossbencher to the House of Lords. He has written regular columns for the Sunday Telegraph, and lectures on leadership and current defence and security issues.
His autobiography Leading from the Front was published in 2010 by Transworld. Boots on the Ground, his post-Second World War history of the British Army was published by Profile to critical acclaim in 2016.
Written with co-author Robert Lyman, his Victory to Defeat on why the British Army was catastrophically unprepared for the Second World War and the lessons we must learn, was published by Bloomsbury / Osprey in 2023.
Co-authored with Allen Packwood, Richard Dannatt’s Churchill’s D-Day was published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2024.
Co-authored with Robert Lyman, his His Korea – A War Without End will be published by Bloomsbury / Osprey in 2025.
An Emmy-winning actor best known for his role as Sam Malone on the television series "Cheers," Danson appears regularly on HBO’s "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and currently stars in "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation." He is on the board of Oceana, the world’s largest non-profit devoted to marine issues.
The former editor in chief of SELF for more than ten years, Danziger is also the author of the New York Times bestseller THE NINE ROOMS OF HAPPINESS. She is a regular guest on television shows, including Today, The View, and Good Morning America.
Rijula Das's debut novel Small Deaths comes out in September 2022. It was previously published as A Death in Shonagachhi by Picador India in July 2021, where it received the Tata Lit Live First Book Award 2021, and was longlisted for many prominent awards, including the JCB prize 2021.
Russian rights have been bought by Ripol; and French rights have been bought by Éditions du Seuil, for publication in 2023. Adaptation rights have been optioned by Drishyam Films, and a limited series is currently in development.
Rijula received her PhD in Creative Writing/prose-fiction in 2017 from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where she taught writing for two years. Her critical research focuses on the connections between public space and sexual violence. A Death in Shonagachhi was born of this research.
Rijula is a recipient of 2019 Michael King Writer's Centre Residency in Auckland and the 2016 Dastaan Award for her short story Notes From A Passing. Her short story, The Grave of The Heart Eater, was longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2019.
She currently lives in Wellington, New Zealand.
Graham Daseler graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a degree in Film and Digital Media. He currently resides in Los Angeles, where he works as a film editor and writer. His work has been published in Senses of Cinema, Bright Lights Film Journal, Moving Arts Film Journal, Film International, and Offscreen.
Linda Davick is a writer/illustrator who started her work in children’s literature after a long career in animation and design. After working with clients like Amazon, Crayola, Klutz Press, and Sesame Street, her first illustrated book appeared on the New York Times’ Best Seller list. That book was 10 TRICK-OR-TREATERS, a seasonal counting book that launched the popular Ten Friends series. Her next book, I LOVE YOU NOSE! I LOVE YOU TOES! won an Ezra Jack Keats honor.
Linda lives by the Rio Grande Nature Preserve in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
A stand-up comedian, an actor, and a writer, Davidoff co-starred in the film Invincible and is a frequent guest on Chelsea Lately.
Carey Davidson is the founder and CEO of Tournesol where she uses the Five Elements, Ayurveda, and Vibroacoustic Method to help catalyze personal health and advance organizational resilience by addressing body, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral needs as well as higher level purpose and spiritual needs.
Curved Air: A Biography of Sickle Cell Anemia and the Excruciating Quest to Cure the First Molecular Disease
Kevin Davies is the founding editor of Nature Genetics and Bio-IT World and former Editor-in-Chief at Cell Press. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017 and is the author of three books. Most recently, Davies co-authored DNA: The Story of the Genetics Revolution, with Nobel laureate Jim Watson and Andrew Berry (Knopf).
Daniel M. Davis is a distinguished immunologist and the Director of Research in the Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research. Prior to this, he was the head of the Immunology Section at Imperial College, London. His first book The Compatibility Gene: How our Bodies Fight Disease, Attract Others, and Define Our Selves (Allen Lane/Penguin Press UK and Oxford University Press), explores how our immune system drives our behavior. It was long-listed for the 2014 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science.
An Eternal Tribute
Matthew Davis is the founder and Executive Director of the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center at George Mason University. He is the author of the memoir When Things Get Dark: A Mongolian Winter's Tale. And his work has appeared, among other places, in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the LA Review of Books, and Guernica.
Dr. Sampson Davis is an emergency room physician, public speaker, philanthropist, and New York Times bestselling author. In 2000, he helped found The Three Doctors Foundation, which offers a series of free public programs focused on health, education, leadership, and mentoring. Dr. Davis was honored in 2000 with the Essence Lifetime Achievement Award as well as named one of their forty most inspirational African Americans in the country. He is the youngest physician to receive the National Medical Association highest honor and was honored on national television with the 2009 BET Awards. Dr. Davis has coauthored New York Times bestselling books, The Pact, We Beat the Street,The Bond, andLiving and Dying in Brick City: An ER Doctor Returns Home.
To Make
Zinnia and the Bees
Our Feet Were Not on the Earth
Danielle Davis grew up in Singapore and Hong Kong and now lives in Downtown Los Angeles. She is a writer, collaborator, teacher, and independent picture book editor. Her goal with every project is to offer kids validation, comfort, and hope. And she enjoys helping writers tap into their own unique voices and visions.
Danielle's first picture book was TO MAKE, illustrated by Mags DeRoma, published with HarperCollins. Her first middle grade novel was ZINNIA AND THE BEES. She loves visiting schools and libraries to read and craft with kids, speaking about her work, and writing and producing animation projects. Danielle has an M.A. in literature and creative writing and had the privilege of teaching English to middle school and then community college students.
Renowned marketing strategy expert Niraj Dawar is a professor at the Ivey Business School and author of Tilt: Shifting Your Strategy from Products to Customers (Harvard Business Review Press), named a Best Book of 2014 by strategy+business and a Noteworthy Book of 2014 by Forbes.
LAID-BACK LUXE
Designer and reality TV host Tamara Day seeks to make the aspirational attainable for her clients and fans of her renovation projects. Tamara restores neglected Kansas City homes on her show, Bargain Mansions. Bargain Mansions, which originated on DIY and then spent two seasons on HGTV, has now found its home on Magnolia Network, and is going into its fourth season. When Tamara is not in front of the camera, she is committed to her family design business, located in Kansas City. Her style, coined "Laid Back Luxe," blends glamour, comfort, and family into the spaces she designs – something she personally prioritizes. As a busy mother of four, Tamara believes that home should be both beautiful and low maintenance because life is stressful enough. To keep up with Tamara and her projects, follow @tamaraday on Instagram.
Sandeep Dayal is the Managing Director for the Chicago based Marketing Strategy powerhouse Cerenti Marketing Group, LLC. As a trench warrior for many companies around the world, he has helped shape the destiny of some of the largest global brands with his innovative ideas and expertise in brain sciences.
DeAngelo is a medical anthropologist with an expertise in landmine detection in Cambodia. She is writing a book about our complex relationship to rats for Liveright.
Anthony DeCurtis is a contributing editor to Rolling Stone, where his work has appeared for more than thirty years. A Grammy Award recipient, he has three times been recognized with the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for excellence in writing about music. A former on-air correspondent and editorial director at VH1, he has contributed to a myriad of television specials and programs; he teaches in the writing program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Bella DePaulo (Ph.D.) is a social psychologist and the author of Singled Out: How Singles are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After (St. Martin's Press) and How We Live Now: Redefining Home and Family in the 21st Century (Atria) and a TEDx talk called "What no one ever told you about people who are single." Atlantic magazine described Dr. DePaulo as “America’s foremost thinker and writer on the single experience.” She is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, such as the James McKeen Cattell Award and the Research Scientist Development Award and has written for publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, NBC, CNN, Time magazine, New York magazine, the Guardian, Forbes, Quartz, Nautilus, the Conversation, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Bella DePaulo has discussed the place of singles in society on NPR and CNN, and her work has been described in newspapers (such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal) and magazines (such as the New Yorker, New York magazine, Atlantic magazine, the Economist, Marie Claire, AARP magazine, Time magazine, and many others). She is an Academic Affiliate in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, UCSB.
Finding Hopwood
Hopwood DePree is a writer, actor, and producer who moved from Hollywood to Middleton, England to try to save from ruin his ancestors’ 600 year old estate, Hopwood Hall.
Jeremy "Jerry" DeSilva is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. He is a paleoanthropologist, specializing in the locomotion of the first apes (hominoids) and early human ancestors (hominins), and his particular anatomical expertise—the human foot and ankle—has contributed to our understanding of the origins and evolution of upright walking in the human lineage.
Peter J. Dean, Ph.D. is the President of Leaders by Design the men’s leadership development and executive coaching division of The Leader’s Edge. He has taught at Wharton, Penn State, Fordham University, and the University of Iowa among others and frequently writes for Wharton Magazine and blog.
RS Deeren writes about odd jobs that helped him, and others like him, pay the bills. Salon magazine says his work offers a "uniquely 21st century perspective on class." Originally from the rural working-class Thumb Region of Michigan, his fiction has been published in Joyland Magazine, The Great Lakes Review, and anthologized in John Freeman's Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation.
We Don't Even Know You Anymore: A Journey in the Heart, Science, Politics, and Possibility of Change
Benoit Denizet-Lewis is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and an assistant professor in the Writing, Literature & Publishing Department at Emerson College. He is the author of America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life, as well as Travels with Casey: My Journey Through Our Dog-Crazy Country (Simon & Schuster). His 2001 New York Times Magazine article “My Ex-Gay Friend” is being adapted into the film “I Am Michael,” starring James Franco, Zachary Quinto, and Emma Roberts.
Jonathan Derbyshire is Executive Opinion Editor at the Financial Times. He was previously Managing Editor of Prospect, Britain’s leading monthly magazine of politics and ideas, and Culture Editor of the New Statesman. Jonathan has also written for a number of other publications, including the Guardian, the Observer and the Times Literary Supplement. In a previous life, he taught philosophy in several British universities.
A decorative artist who lives in New York City, Derian is America’s leading practitioner of decoupage. Derian’s works have been sold at more than 700 high-end boutiques and department stores around the world, and his artistry has been featured in the New York Times, House and Garden, Country Living, and the Wall Street Journal, among other publications. His John Derian Picture Book was a New York Times bestseller.
Auriane Desombre is a former English teacher currently pursuing an MA in English Lit at NYU and an MFA in Creative Writing for Children at The New School. She writes YA fiction to inspire and encourage young readers in the LGBTQ+ community. I Think I Love You is her debut.
Punk in Fifty Pieces
Shake it Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay-Z
Kevin Dettmar is a literary, music, and cultural critic whose scholarship specializes in British and Irish modernism and contemporary popular music. He has written for academic anthologies as well as The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Dettmar is the co-editor for the Oxford University Press book series Modernist Literature & Culture, general editor of the Longman Anthology of British Literature, and author of the 33 1/3 book Gang Of Four: Entertainment! He is the W.M. Keck Professor of English at Pomona College, and is based in California.
The Vagus
Jacqueline Detwiler-George is a former neuroscientist and is a writer and editor about science, adventure, travel, and food and drink. Her work has appeared in many national magazines and been cited by Best American Science and Nature Writing. She is the former host and producer of the Most Useful Podcast Ever.
Southland: A Los Angeles Almanac and Atlas
William Deverell is a historian specializing in the 19th and 20th century American West and environmental history. He has written numerous books on the history of California and the American West, including Shaped By the West: A History of North America (University of California Press, 2018), and serves as director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, a collaborative research and teaching entity between USC's Dornslife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences and the Huntington Library.
Tinderbox
Sadanand Dhume writes about South Asian political economy, foreign policy, business, and society, with a focus on India and Pakistan. He is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a South Asia columnist for the Wall Street Journal. He has worked as a foreign correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review in India and Indonesia and was a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society in Washington, D.C.
Tiffanie’s first book, Dwarf: How One Woman Fought for a Body—And a Life—She Was Never Supposed to Have (Plume, 2012), was hailed as “uplifting and profound” (Kirkus), and “a fascinating take on disability that you won’t want to miss.” by The Christian Science Monitor. She’s written for The New York Times blog, Well Family, MilSpouse Magazine, ScareyMommy.com, and contributing a weekly parenting column for The Jacksonville Daily News syndicated across Eastern North Carolina. A motivational speaker, Tiffanie speaks at elementary, middle, and high schools around the country to talk about inclusion, anti-bullying, peer pressure, suicide prevention, and above all, persevering through difficulty. She, her Marine husband and two sons live in Swansboro, North Carolina.
Ani DiFranco is a Grammy Award-winning singer, multi-instrumentalist, poet, songwriter, activist, businesswoman, and New York Times bestselling author. She has released more than 20 albums, and is one of the first independent musicians to create her own label, Righteous Babe Records (based in Buffalo, NY). She is widely known as an activist and feminist icon, and the Righteous Babe Foundation supports causes ranging from abortion rights to gay visibility.
Dan DiMicco is a former President, CEO, and Executive Chairman of Nucor Corporation and served on the US Manufacturing Council from 2008–2011. In 2011 he was inducted into IndustryWeek’s Manufacturing Hall of Fame, and he has been awarded the prestigious Robert P. Stupp Award for Leadership and Excellence and the Charlotte Business Journal’s Businessperson of the Year Award. He is the author of American Made: Why Making Things Will Return Us to Greatness (St. Martin’s).
Dr. Rebekah Diamond is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University, New York City hospital pediatrician, writer and mother. She is the author of Parent Like A Pediatrician, which provides parents with the safe, realistic guidance that pediatricians follow to raise their own children (Instagram @parentlikeapediatrician).
Jared Diamond is the national baseball reporter for the Wall Street Journal, where in the past he has covered the Mets and the Yankees. He appears regularly on the MLB Network and is the co-creator of the journalism newsletter “The -30-.”
Dickie is an award-winning environmental reporter whose travels have spanned the globe. Her first book, Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future will be published by Norton in July 2023.
A stand-up comedian and humor lecturer, Diffee is a cartoonist for The New Yorker.
Zip Zap Wickety Whack!
Matt Diffee is an author and award winning illustrator who has been contributing cartoons to The New Yorker since 1999. His work has also appeared in Time, The Huffington Post, The Believer and Texas Monthly magazines and he is the editor of three volumes of “The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw and Never Will See in The New Yorker”
Michael Dine is Professor of Physics at University of California, Santa Cruz. He is noted for work on cosmology where he has proposed one of the leading candidates for the dark matter and several ideas for how the asymmetry might arise between matter and antimatter, for work in particle physics particularly in the strong interactions, for work on the possibility that nature is supersymmetric, and for research in string theory.
He was previously at the Institute for Advanced Study and was the Henry Semat Professor at City College of New York. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and Winner of the 2018 Sakurai Prize of the American Physical Society.
Sarah Ditum is a columnist, critic and feature writer with bylines at the New Statesman, the Guardian, the Spectator, the Independent, Eurogamer, Stylist, Grazia, Elle and more.
These Bones Can Speak: José Tomás Canales, the Texas Rangers, and the Trial that Defined the Border
Adin Dobkin writes about the intersection of war, culture, and memory for publications such as The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and the New York Times. In addition to pursuing an MFA in Nonfiction from Columbia University, he’s the president of the Military Writers Guild and the co-creator of the podcast “War Stories,” which traces the technological development of warfare.
Kate Dobson is a former Assistant Comics Editor for the Washington Post and head writer for Brown University’s humor magazine. Her hobbies include serving food to her small children and, later, vacuuming that same food up off the floor.
J.D. Dobson is a former U.S. Senate aide, federal lobbyist, and crisis communications consultant. He and his wife, Kate, founded the political humor website Hottest Heads of State, which is basically just what it sounds like. When he’s not writing, he is a semi-professional novelty candlemaker.
Maggie Doherty is a literary scholar, historian, and critic based at Harvard University, where she teaches writing, literature, and history. Receiving her BA from Yale University and PhD in English from Harvard, Doherty has written for publications like BookForum, Dissent, n+1, The New Republic, the Times Literary Supplement, and The New Yorker.
Children of the Revolution
Zayd Ayers Dohrn is an acclaimed playwright, screenwriter, and writing professor at Northwestern University. His most recent project is Crooked Media’s hit narrative podcast Mother Country Radicals, for which Zayd won “Best Audio Storytelling” at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, the Gold Medal for Best Narrative/Documentary at the New York Festivals Radio Awards, and the Signal Listener’s Choice Awards for Best Writing and Best Documentary.
Dr. Kenneth J. Doka is an internationally renowned expert on grief. Dr. Doka is an in-demand speaker and professor of gerontology whose work has been featured in national publications and media outlets such as CNN and Nightline, as well as the author of over thirty academic books on grief. He is the author of Grief is a Journey (Atria/Simon & Schuster).
The Power of Parting
Eamon Dolan has worked as an editor at HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Penguin Press. He is currently Vice President & Executive Editor at Simon & Schuster. During his thirty-year career, he's published virtually every genre except cookbooks. His high water marks include Eric Schlosser's FAST FOOD NATION, Stefan Fatsis' WORD FREAK, Richard Dawkins' THE GOD DELUSION, David Sheff's BEAUTIFUL BOY, Joshua Foer's MOONWALKING WITH EINSTEIN, Keith O'Brien's FLY GIRLS, Mary L. Trump{"s TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH, Jay Shetty's THINK LIKE A MONK, and Michael Schur's HOW TO BE PERFECT. As an editor, he focuses on current affairs, history, hard and soft science, memoir, and popular culture. He's also a professional photographer; his work has been shown at the International Center of Photography and elsewhere. THE POWER OF PARTING is his debut as an author.
A Polish-American novelist and critically acclaimed film and TV actress, Dominczyk is known for her roles in Higher Ground, The Good Wife, and Boardwalk Empire.
Off the Scale: The Inside Story of Ozempic and the Race to Cure Obesity
Aimee Donnellan is a columnist at Reuters, where she has closely followed Big Pharma (among many other topics). Previously she was banking correspondent at the Sunday Times (London). She has been a journalist for over 15 years and started her career investigating the opaque worlds of hedge funds and online gambling. She also covered the bond market after the 2008 financial crash for the investment bankers’ bible, International Financing Review.
Aimee grew up in Galway in the west coast of Ireland and lives in London with her wife and two children.
A long-time contributor of cartoons and writing to The New Yorker and the New York Times, Donnelly is also resident cartoonist at CBS News. Donnelly is the creator of a new form of journalism, digital live-drawing. She’s also a frequent public speaker and gave a internationally popular TED talk about using humor to change the world.
Rachel studied Philosophy and Politics in University College Dublin, before working in communications. Her short stories have been published in the Irish Independent, Irish Times and RTE.ie, and in 2017 she won the Hennessy "New Irish Writer of the Year" Award. Her first novel, The Temple House Vanishing, has been nominated for 'Best Newcomer' at the 2020 Irish Book Awards. She lives with her family in Dublin, Ireland.
Joan Donovan, PhD is one of the leading public scholars and disinformation researchers in the world. As the Research Director of the Harvard Shorenstein Center, Donovan is a thought leader, and sought-after social scientist whose expertise is in how social movements form, fringe political movements, and the role technology and media play in their growth.
How to Measure a Day
Madeleine Dore is a freelance writer, interviewer, and “day artist” exploring how we can broaden our definitions of creativity and productivity as the marker of a day well spent. She is the founder of the blog Extraordinary Routines and the podcast Routines & Ruts. Through hundreds of interviews with creative people, Madeleine has collected insights that help readers navigate uncertainty, perfectionism, and productivity guilt.
Dr. Barry Dorn is associate director of the Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution and adjunct lecturer in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Barry Dornfeld is Principal at management consulting firm CFAR, a board member of the Philadelphia Human Resource Planning Society, a member of the Greater Philadelphia Senior Executives Group, and author, with Malachi O’Connor, of The Moment You Can’t Ignore (PublicAffairs).
Rush Doshi is a Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Director of the Brookings China Strategy Initiative. He is also a Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, Special Advisor to the CEO of the Asia Group, and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve. His research has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, the Washington Post, International Organization, and the Washington Quarterly, among other publications.
Avni Doshi was born in New Jersey and lives in Dubai. She has a BA in art history from Barnard College in New York and a Masters in history of art from University College London. She was awarded the Tibor Jones South Asia Prize in 2013 and a Charles Pick Fellowship in 2014. Her writing has appeared in British Vogue, Granta and The Sunday Times. Her first novel, Burnt Sugar, was originally released in India under the title Girl in White Cotton, where it won the 2021 Sushila Devi Award and was longlisted for the 2019 Tata First Novel Prize. Upon publication in the UK, Burnt Sugar was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. Named a 2020 Book of the Year by the Guardian, Economist, Spectator and NPR, it is being published in 26 languages. In 2021, it was longlisted for the Women’s Prize and selected as one of The New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of the year. Avni is currently working on her second book.
Now a staff writer for the Atlantic, Dovere has been covering politics and the Democratic Party for over a decade. He was previously the Chief Washington correspondent for Politico and the host of Politico’s popular podcast Off Message. Dovere's journalism has won the Merriman Smith Award from the White House Correspondents Association.
Union Station
Wedding Station
Diary of a Dead Man on Leave
Lenin's Roller Coaster
One Man's Flag
Jack of Spies David Downing
I grew up in London and between 1973 and 1976 worked for one rock magazine and freelanced for several others. My fist book, which grew out of the rock journalism, was Future Rock published in 1975. Since then, I have worked as a freelance book writer. In this period the books mostly alternated between modern culture (rock music and movies) or political/military history, but I also wrote two works of 'faction' - the WW2 alternative history The Moscow Option and the forward-looking Russian Revolution 1985. In 1987 my first thriller The Red Eagles was published in the US. My Jack of Spies was published on both sides of the Atlantic in 2014. The sequel, One Man's Flag was published in 2015 with the third volume, Lenin's Roller Coaster published in 2017.
I have written eight volumes of the John Russell series of espionage thrillers and Sealing Their Fate a military history.
The stand-alone spy story The Diary of a Dead Man on Leave was published by Soho Press in the US in 2019.
Wedding Station, the seventh volume of the Station series (a prequel to Zoo Station) was published by Soho Press and Old Street in the UK in 2021.
Union Station, the eighth and concluding volume in the series was published in 2024.
Aliens: The Chequered History of Britain's Wartime Refugees
The Great Revolt
Wolf Children
Wave
Bomber
Red Shadow
Paul Dowswell writes award-winning historical fiction for young adults. He is best known for his Bloomsbury novel Auslander, which won the 2019 Trinity Schools Book Award and the 2011 Hamelin Associazione Culturale Book Prize and been shortlisted for 19 other UK and international book awards since 2009.
His Eleven Eleven won the 2013 Historical Association Young Quills Award and Sektion 20 won the 2012 Historical Association Young Quills Award. His Bloomsbury novels The Cabinet of Curiosities (2011), Red Shadow (2014), Bomber (2016) and his Barrington Stoke novel Wave (2017) have also been shortlisted for the Historical Association Young Quills Award. His 2005 novel Powder Monkey was shortlisted for the 2006 Trinity Schools Book Award. His non-fiction books have won or been shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award (twice), the Rhône-Poulenc Junior Prize for Science Books, and the TES Information Book Award. His Wolf Children was hailed as the 'best post-war children's novel since The Silver Sword by Amanda Craig. Dutch publishers Callenbach published his 14th novel, Out of Nowhere in 2021.
His books are sold throughout the English-speaking world and have been published in an additional ten languages. Although most are aimed at teenage readers, they have wide appeal and have been published abroad for the adult market. Most of his novels are set in the 20th Century and are primarily concerned with the First or Second World War, and life under totalitarian regimes. Paul Dowswell is also a prolific writer of non-fiction with over seventy titles to his name.
He is a regular visitor to schools all around the UK and Europe and has also been invited to Australia and South Africa to talk about his books and teach creative writing.
He is a Visiting Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University and has recently worked for the Royal Literary Fund as a visiting fellow at Sheffield University and Leicester De Montfort.
His acclaimed first adult non-fiction, Aliens - The Chequered History of Britain's Wartime Refugees, 1933 - 1950, was published by Biteback in 2023.
Danielle Dreilinger, a 2017-18 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow, has worked as a journalist for more than 15 years. As the education reporter for NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, she became a trusted voice and national must-read for people following the city's radical post-Katrina school experiment. Before moving to New Orleans, Danielle wrote about city news and happenings for the Boston Globe and worked in public media, both audio and digital, at WGBH and WBUR. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, No Depression, The New York Times, Nashville Scene and Boston Magazine, among other outlets. She lives in New Orleans.
An Associate Professor in the English Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, and founder of John Jay’s Prison-to-College Pipeline program (P2CP), Dreisinger is a reporter for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and NPR, among others publications. She’s also the author of NEAR BLACK: White to Black Passing in American Culture.
Emily Dreyfuss is a well-known veteran tech journalist whose work has focused on the intersection of technology and society for many years. She has written for WIRED, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Week, and many other publications, delivered keynotes at conferences, and has been a guest on everything from The Today Show to NPR on The Nightly News.
Ali Drucker is a freelance writer covering sexual health and pop culture. She was previously Cosmopolitan.com's Senior Sex & Relationship Editor. Since then, her work has appeared in New York Magazine, HuffPost, Refinery29 and more. Ali is based in Los Angeles, California.
Charlotte Druckman is a journalist, food writer, and cookbook author whose books include Skirt Steak: Women Chefs on Standing the Heat and Staying in the Kitchen; Stir, Sizzle, Bake (Potter) and the upcoming, Kitchen Remix (Clarkson Potter). Her work appears regularly in various publications such as Food & Wine, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and others, and she is also the co-founder of Food 52’s Piglet Competition.
The Banjo: A Cultural History (Harvard)
Haiti, a history (Metropolitan/Holt)
The Language of the Game: How to Understand Soccer (Basic)
Dubois teaches history at the University of Virginia and is a specialist on the Atlantic colonial world.
Ducharme is a staff writer at TIME magazine covering health and breaking news. She has spent years investigating topics such as vaping and has written extensively on medical research, public health, business, and government regulations.
You Are Not Alone: The NAMI Guide to Mental Illness and Recovery
Dr. Ken Duckworth is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard University and Chief Medical Officer of NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness. NAMI is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.
Senior technology reporter at ProPublica, Renee Dudley has won the 2019 SABEW award for Technology and the 2020 TRACE Prize for Investigative Reporting. She previously worked at Reuters, where her series on U.S. higher education was named a 2017 Pulitzer Prize finalist in National Reporting.
With Nancy McSharry Jensen, Sarah Duenwald founded The Swing Shift, dedicated to lifting barriers which impede women from finding meaningful work, allowing them to combine career and family in the modern workplace.
Karen Duffy is the author of the New York Times bestseller Model Patient: My Life as an Incurable Wise-Ass. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Glamour, Esquire, and the New York Daily News, and has played parts in the movies Dumb and Dumber, Celebrity, and Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox.She was also the face for Revlon's "Charlie’s Girl" and a VJ for MTV. She resides in New York with her husband and son.
Brian Dumaine is an award-winning journalist and a contributing editor at Fortune magazine. In addition to Bezonomics, his works include The Plot to Save the Planet, and, with three coauthors, Go Long: Why Long-Term Thinking Is Your Best Short-Term Strategy. He and his wife live in New York.
We Are Lost and Found (Sourcebooks Fire, 2019)
Prelude for Lost Souls (Sourcebooks Fire, 2020)
The Promise of Lost Things (Sourcebooks Fire, 2022)
Over the years, Dunbar has worked as a drama critic, journalist, and marketing manager, and has written on topics as diverse as traditional Irish music, court cases, and theater. She lives in Nashville with her husband and daughter.
Strudel, Noodles and Dumplings: The New Taste of German Cooking (4th Estate)
Advent: Festive German Bakes to Celebrate the Coming of Christmas (Quadrille)
Anja Dunk was born in Wales to a German mother and a Welsh father. Her childhood was spent predominantly in Wales but also Germany and South East Asia, where she moved to and from over the early years of her life. Her love of food started at home but has grown since working in cafes and restaurants over the years. She is now a freelance cook, food writer and artist.
Why Nothing Works
Marc J. Dunkelman is a fellow in International and Public Affairs at the Brown University Watson Institute. His work focuses on the architecture of American community and the progressive movement's evolving view of power. During more than a dozen years working in Washington, Dunkelman served as a senior fellow at the Clinton Foundation, on the staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee, as legislative director and chief of staff to a member of the House of Representatives, and as the vice president for strategy and communications at the Democratic Leadership Council. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, Daily Beast, and National Affairs, among other publications. He is the author of The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community (W.W. Norton, 2014).
Jacob Dunne is an educator facilitating important conversations around criminal justice, education and mental health. In 2020 he helped create and present a BBC Radio 4 series The Punch based on his own life story and the transformative effect of Restorative Justice on his life. He is a former Longford scholar and received a first class honours in Criminology in 2019.
He is currently writing his first book to be published in early 2022 and is keen to continue stimulating important conversations with the public.
Dr. Hannah Durkin is an academic with more than a decade’s expertise in Black Atlantic history. She has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Nottingham and a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism from the University of Leeds, and she has taught at Nottingham and Newcastle Universities, as well as recently serving as a Guest Researcher at Linnaeus University in Sweden. Her knowledge has been sought out by the Alabama Historical Commission, which is working to salvage the Clotilda slave ship, and the Clotilda Descendants Association has invited her to be the keynote speaker at Africatown’s 2021 Spirit of Our Ancestors Festival. She is the recipient of more than a dozen academic prizes, including a prestigious Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship (2013–16).
Ken Dychtwald is a psychologist, gerontologist, and best-selling author of 17 books on aging-related issues. Since 1986, Ken has been the Founder and CEO of Age Wave, a firm created to guide companies and government groups in product/service development for boomers and mature adults.
Maddy Dychtwald is the the co-founder of Age Wave and an internationally acclaimed social scientist, researcher, and thought leader on longevity, aging, the new retirement, and the ascent of women. Recognized by Forbes as one of the top 50 female futurists globally, she is a Wall Street Journal blogger, and she and her work are frequently featured in prominent media outlets, including Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, Newsweek, Time, Fox Business News, CNBC, and NPR.
Untitled Nonfiction Book
A former senior editor at The New Yorker, Eakin has worked as an ideas reporter for the New York Times and a fashion features writer at Vogue. She’s written for Vanity Fair, The New York Review of Books, and The New Republic, among other publications.
Senior editor of and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, Eakin has written for the New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.
Entrepreneur and licensed financial advisor Ilana Edelstein is founder and president of IE Financial Services and author of The Patrón Way: The Untold Inside Story of the World’s Most Successful Tequila (McGraw-Hill), an account of how she and Martin Crowley launched their ultra premium tequila brand and catapulted it to global success.
A Killing in Cannabis
Scott Eden is an investigative reporter whose work has focused on crime, corruption, injustice, business, science technology and the dark side of sports. He’s the author of TOUCHDOWN JESUS (S&S, 2005) and his work has appeared in ESPN The Magazine, The Atavist, Wired, Men’s Health and many other publications.
Geoff Edgers is TheWashington Post’s national arts reporter, covering everything from fine arts to popular culture. In the last year he’s profiled Bill Murray, the Eagles and told the story of making Run-DMC’s version of Walk This Way.
American Journey: Birds, Survival, and Hope on a Bicycle Across the Country
In the summer of 2020 when the country was wracked by troubles – Covid, the killing of George Floyd, and the upcoming election, Scott Edwards, a professor of ornithology at Harvard, who happens to be Black, fulfilled a dream to cycle solo from coast to coast, sporting a BLM banner on his bicycle. He is writing a book about that journey, the people and birds he encountered, for Liveright. Its working title is American Journey: Birds, Survival, and Hope on a Bicycle Across the Country.
Mieke Eerkens is a Dutch-American writer who grew up divided between the foothills of California and the canals of the Netherlands. She is a graduate of the University of Iowa’s MFA program in nonfiction writing, and her work has appeared in publications such as Los Angeles Review of Books, The Atlantic, Guernica, Creative Nonfiction, Best Travel Writing 2011, and the Norton anthology Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts.
Mark Eglinton is a Scottish author and co-writer.
His recent books include Blindsided, with former Australian rugby captain and stroke survivor Michael Lynagh — which was shortlisted for International Autobiography Of The Year 2016; Heavy Duty: Days And Nights In Judas Priest with musician K.K Downing — one of Rolling Stone magazine’s ten Music Books of 2018 and, most recently, Reboot: My Life My Time with football legend Michael Owen — shortlisted for Autobiography Of The Year 2020 by the Daily Telegraph.
Among other career endeavours, he’s a former professional golf caddie and has written about his experiences for Golf magazine and Golf Digest.”