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Explore writer through the work and perspectives of John Ayers, Sam Sarkisian, Dan Curran, and other authors on Chapters.

66 profiles on Chapters.

• John Ayers

  Co-Founder of Chapters.io. Builder. Writer. Obsessed with authentic expertise in the age of AI.

  Selected work: LinkedIn Post: Keep judgment visible as automation grows

• Sam Sarkisian

  Sam Sarkisian is an editorial director.

• Dan Curran

  Dan Curran is an entrepreneur and author of Chaos Is A Ladder: An Entrepreneur's Case Against Certainty.

• Alden Jones

  Alden Jones is an American writer and educator whose memoirs explore travel, personal evolution, and the experience of being an outsider.

  Selected work: The blind masseuse

• Allie Brosh

  Allie Brosh is an American blogger, writer, and comic artist whose autobiographical stories combine humor, personal reflection, and intentionally crude illustrations.

  Selected work: Solutions and Other Problems

• Amy Paulson

  Writer and memoirist whose work examines the impact that experiences in public education can have on educators and their families.

  Selected work: Behind the Educator

• Anne Lamott

  American novelist and nonfiction writer, author of Bird by Bird.

  Selected work: Bird by Bird

• Bee Wilson

  Bee Wilson is a British food writer and journalist whose work explores cooking tools, culinary history, and the ways people understand food.

  Selected work: Consider the fork

• Ben Goldacre

  Ben Goldacre is a British physician, academic and science writer whose work examines evidence-based medicine, scientific claims and pharmaceutical industry practices.

  Selected work: I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That

• Beth Macy

  Beth Macy is an American journalist and nonfiction writer whose books include Dopesick, an account of America’s opioid addiction crisis.

  Selected work: Dopesick

• Candice Millard

  Candice Millard is an American writer and journalist whose nonfiction books cover historical figures, scientific expeditions, and exploration.

  Selected work: Hero of the empire

• Carlo Rovelli

  Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist and writer whose work spans quantum gravity, the philosophy of science, and popular science.

  Selected work: L'ordine del tempo

• Chanel Miller

  Chanel Miller is an American writer and artist who gained prominence through her viral victim impact statement and her critically acclaimed memoir about trauma and healing.

  Selected work: Know My Name

• Clay Shirky

  Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant, and professor whose work examines the social and economic effects of Internet technologies and journalism.

  Selected work: Here comes everybody

• Dan Senor

  Dan Senor is an American writer and political adviser who co-authored Start-Up Nation, examining Israel’s startup economy and entrepreneurial culture.

  Selected work: Start-Up Nation

• Daniel H. Pink

  American non-fiction writer, author of Drive.

  Selected work: Drive

• Dave Eggers

  Dave Eggers is an American writer, editor, and publisher whose work spans memoir, fiction, and children's books, alongside literary and educational initiatives.

  Selected work: Her Right Foot

• David Grann

  David Grann is an acclaimed American journalist and New Yorker staff writer known for his bestselling investigative nonfiction books and reporting.

  Selected work: Killers of the Flower Moon

• David Quammen

  David Quammen is an American science and nature writer whose nonfiction explores subjects including emerging diseases and their transmission from animals to humans.

  Selected work: Spillover

• Erik J. Larson

  Erik J. Larson is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and writer whose nonfiction examines artificial intelligence and its differences from human reasoning.

  Selected work: The Myth of Artifical Intelligence

• Jane Friedman

  Author of The Business of Being a Writer.

  Selected work: The Business of Being a Writer

• Janet Mock

  Janet Mock is an American writer, television producer, and transgender rights activist renowned for her bestselling memoir and editorial work for major publications.

  Selected work: Redefining realness

• Jeff VanderMeer

  American writer, author of Wonderbook.

  Selected work: Wonderbook

• Jen Sincero

  American writer, author of You Are a Badass.

  Selected work: You Are a Badass

• Jenny Odell

  Jenny Odell is an American artist, writer and educator whose nonfiction examines attention, capitalist ideas of productivity, and possibilities for political and environmental engagement.

  Selected work: How to Do Nothing

• Jia Tolentino

  Jia Tolentino is a Canadian-American writer and editor whose essays examine US culture, the internet, feminism, politics and self-delusion.

  Selected work: Trick Mirror

• Jill Konrath

  American business writer, author of SNAP Selling.

  Selected work: SNAP Selling

• Johann Hari

  Scottish writer, author of Stolen Focus.

  Selected work: Stolen Focus

• Jon Krakauer

  Jon Krakauer is an American writer, journalist, and mountaineer whose nonfiction books cover wilderness experiences, climbing disasters, religion, and Pat Tillman.

  Selected work: Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way

• Julia Galef

  Julia Galef is an American writer, speaker and co-founder of the Center for Applied Rationality whose work explores belief and accurate thinking.

  Selected work: Scout Mindset

• Lawrence Wright

  Lawrence Wright is an American writer and journalist known for nonfiction books on al-Qaeda and for examining the COVID-19 pandemic in The Plague Year.

  Selected work: The Plague Year

• Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

  Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a Canadian-American writer, educator, and activist whose work examines disability justice, collective access, and interconnected systems of violence.

  Selected work: Care Work

• Lori Gottlieb

  21st century American writer and psychotherapist, author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone.

  Selected work: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

• Maggie Nelson

  Maggie Nelson is an American writer whose work combines autobiography, criticism, and theory to explore art, gender, sexuality, and personal experience.

  Selected work: The Argonauts

• Margot Lee Shetterly

  Margot Lee Shetterly is an American nonfiction writer whose first book, Hidden Figures, examines African-American women mathematicians’ contributions to the United States space program.

  Selected work: Hidden Figures

• Maria Konnikova

  Maria Konnikova is an American writer and psychologist whose work explores human behavior, decision-making, and the role of chance.

  Selected work: The Biggest Bluff

• Matt Ridley

  Matt Ridley is a British science writer, journalist and businessman whose work covers science, the environment and economics.

  Selected work: The Rational Optimist

• Matthew Syed

  English writer and former table tennis player, author of Bounce.

  Selected work: Bounce

• Meg-John Barker

  Meg-John Barker is a writer and independent scholar whose nonfiction explores relationships, sex, gender, and queer thought through academic and graphic formats.

  Selected work: Queer

• Nadia Eghbal

  Nadia Eghbal, also known as Nadia Asparouhova, is a researcher and writer who examines open-source software and the economics of online creators.

  Selected work: Working in Public

• Nicholas G. Carr

  Nicholas G. Carr is an American journalist and writer whose nonfiction examines technology, business, culture, and society’s relationship with digital tools.

  Selected work: Utopia is Creepy and Other Provocations

• Nick Bostrom

  Philosopher and writer, author of Superintelligence.

  Selected work: Superintelligence

• Nir Eyal

  American writer, educator, and entrepreneur, author of Hooked.

  Selected work: Hooked

• Paul Tough

  Canadian-American writer and broadcaster, author of How Children Succeed.

  Selected work: How Children Succeed

• Peter Frankopan

  Peter Frankopan is a British historian and writer whose work includes global history, Byzantine research and the history of the Silk Roads.

  Selected work: The Silk Roads

• Ramit Sethi

  American blogger and writer, author of I Will Teach You to Be Rich.

  Selected work: I Will Teach You to Be Rich

• Raynor Winn

  Raynor Winn is an English writer and long-distance walker known for The Salt Path, a semi-autobiographical memoir and travel diary.

  Selected work: Het zoutpad

• Rebecca Skloot

  Rebecca Skloot is an American science writer specializing in science and medicine, known for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

  Selected work: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

• Robin Sharma

  Canadian self help writer, author of The Leader Who Had No Title.

  Selected work: The Leader Who Had No Title

• Rolf Dobelli

  Swiss writer, author of The Art of Thinking Clearly.

  Selected work: The Art of Thinking Clearly

• Rupa Marya

  Rupa Marya is a San Francisco-based physician, activist, musician and writer who co-authored Inflamed, examining connections between health and structural injustice.

  Selected work: Inflamed

• Ruth Reichl

  Ruth Reichl is an American food writer, chef, and editor whose work includes restaurant criticism, cookbooks, and memoirs about food and publishing.

  Selected work: Save Me the Plums

• Sally Helgesen

  American writer on women and the workplace, author of How Women Rise.

  Selected work: How Women Rise

• Sam Kean

  Sam Kean is an American science writer whose six books explore scientific discoveries through narrative accounts.

  Selected work: The Disappearing Spoon

• Samantha Irby

  Samantha Irby is an American comedian, essayist, blogger, and television writer whose nonfiction draws humor from her life and observations of modern society.

  Selected work: We are Never Meeting in Real Life

• Sanjay Gupta

  American neurosurgeon and writer, author of Keep Sharp.

  Selected work: Keep Sharp

• Sara Ahmed

  Sara Ahmed is a British-Australian writer and scholar whose work examines feminist theory, emotions, institutional power and the experiences of those who complain.

  Selected work: Complaint!

• Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Indian-American physician, writer b. 1970, author of The Emperor of All Maladies.

  Selected work: The Emperor of All Maladies

• Susan Cain

  American writer, author of Quiet.

  Selected work: Quiet

• Taras Grescoe

  Taras Grescoe is a Canadian non-fiction writer whose book Bottomfeeder examines the seafood industry and the environmental and ethical implications of eating fish.

  Selected work: Bottomfeeder

• Thomas J. Stanley

  American writer, author of The Millionaire Next Door.

  Selected work: The Millionaire Next Door

• Tom Peters

  United States writer on organisation and employment, author of In Search of Excellence.

  Selected work: In Search of Excellence

• Trevor Noah

  Trevor Noah is a South African comedian, writer and political commentator whose autobiographical book Born a Crime recounts his upbringing and relationship with his mother.

  Selected work: Born a Crime

• Verne Harnish

  American business writer, author of Scaling Up.

  Selected work: Scaling Up

• Vicki Robin

  American writer, author of Your Money or Your Life.

  Selected work: Your Money or Your Life

• Zagloul Kadah

  Engineer, entrepreneur, and theology writer who also publishes alternative interpretations of major political and historical events.

  Selected work: The Flying Oil Tanker