Creative soul, performer, bird nerd, seeker of collective liberation.
Write. Edit. Query. Repeat.
Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Freelance writer, editor, columnist & consultant. Formerly at Scientific American, Washington Post, National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian & Science. Past president of National Association of Science Writers. Birder.
Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Author of Bellwether: A Telephone Operator, a Landmark Court Case, and the Women Whose Voices Connected a Nation (Union Square 2026). History and culture writer. Words in The Atlantic, NPR, Salon, Washington Post. she/her
author, journalist, documentary director - - Amelia Earhart's biographer
A publication of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Nieman Storyboard explores the art and craft of narrative nonfiction—across all genres and platforms.
https://niemanstoryboard.org/
New York Times bestselling author of WOMEN IN WHITE COATS and SISTERS IN SCIENCE. Editor, Everyday Health. Regular contributor, NatGeo. Journalist. Essayist. Feminist. Mom. Lover of cats, books, baking, tea, & thrifting
Author. Stargazer. Denver, CO Cat lady. Messy but organized. “Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.” ― Wei Wu Wei
New book: The Cure for Women (St. Martin's Press). December 2024.
www.lydiareeder.com
Time traveler, purveyor of weird and wicked history, NYT bestselling author. New nonfiction: EDEN UNDONE: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II.
https://www.abbottkahler.com/
Writing a book about maps | Wrote a book called, Ice: FROM MIXED DRINKS TO SKATING RINKS—A COOL HISTORY OF A HOT COMMODITY | historian & journalist | Newsletter: "Library of Wonders": https://libraryofwonders.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-library
Narrative journalist, professor. Author of upcoming WOMEN OF WAR: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis (4/2025) & POWER HUNGRY: Women of the Black Panther Party and Their Fight to Feed a Movement. suzannecope.com
Writer & historian. Author, THE DIVORCE COLONY—"a spellbinding look into a forgotten history," a "riveting, proudly feminist book." More at aprwhite.com
A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative || Where good writing counts and facts matter.
Writer. Foreign reporting, narrative nonfiction books. Recent: "Understanding the Pain of Others. Holocaust and World Memory"
Investigations editor @TexasObserver.org Author THE SCIENTIST & THE SERIAL KILLER @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social & CODE OF SILENCE—the inside story of the first federal judge to be impeached for sex crimes @BeaconPress.bsky.social www.liseolsen.com
NYT bestselling author of FLY GIRLS, PARADISE FALLS, and CHARLIE HUSTLE, the definitive story of Pete Rose’s rise and fall. II Bylines @NPR, @washingtonpost, and elsewhere. II Learn more at www.KeithOB.com
