Kathryn Reimann and Bruce Petersen, Directors Class of 1979 Authors and Artists Series
Bios:
Gary Krist is the bestselling author of four works of narrative nonfiction—The Mirage Factory, Empire of Sin, City of Scoundrels, and The White Cascade—as
well as five works of fiction. He has also written book reviews, travel
articles, and satire for a wide variety of publications, including The
New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, National
Geographic Traveler, Esquire, GQ, and The Hudson Review, where he has
been an advisory editor for over 20 years. He’s been the recipient of
the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the
Stephen Crane Award, a Lowell Thomas Gold Medal for Travel Journalism,
and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is
currently a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar for
2020-2021.
Robert Wright is the author of The Evolution of God (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), The Moral Animal (named one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review), Three Scientists and their Gods (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Nonzero, and, most recently, Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
(a New York Times bestseller). He has written for The New Yorker, The
Atlantic, The New York Times, Time, and The New Republic. He has taught
in the psychology department at Penn and the religion department at
Princeton. He hosts The Wright Show, an audio podcast that is also
posted in video form on Meaningoflife.tv and Bloggingheads.tv, platforms
he founded and co-founded, respectively. He also publishes the Nonzero
Newsletter, available on Substack and at nonzero.org.
