Annie Murphy Paul is an acclaimed science writer whose work has appeared in the
New York Times Magazine,
Scientific American, and
The Best American Science Writing, among many other publications. She is the author of
Origins, selected as a
New York Times Notable Book, and
The Cult of Personality, hailed by Malcolm Gladwell in
TheNew Yorker as a "fascinating new book." Her TED Talk has been viewed more than
2.6 million times. Paul is a recipient of the Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship, the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship, and the Bernard L. Schwartz Fellowship at New America. A graduate of Yale University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she is currently a Learning Sciences Exchange Fellow at New America.
