Authors

Eli Gottlieb was born in Manhattan and grew up in rural New Jersey. He graduated from Hampshire College and has since worked as staff writer for the Jewish Theological Seminary, University Lecturer in Padua, Italy, Senior Editor for Elle Magazine, and freelance book critic and travel writer for the New York Times. He’s also written for many other publications. He’s been publishing literary fiction for over two decades. He has taught at the MFA program at Columbia University and currently teaches at Vassar College.

Best known for a pair of highly praised autobiographical novels, The Boy Who Went Away and Best Boy, Gottlieb has been both a vessel for stories from the larger autism community and spokesperson. This work of narrative non-fiction is nothing short of a life project that mines the complexities of lived experience with an utterly compelling investigation of why this subject has been so taboo, and what this new field of study can illuminate. This project asks how we can support neurodivergent people in their search for intimacy, and in so doing focusses our attention on a pervasive cultural bias and the ever-present need for greater understanding.

Professor Geir Jordet is described by The Times as “The World leading expert on the psychology of penalties”. Since 2004, he has studied penalty kicks and published extensively on it in scientific journals. Jordet is professor in psychology and football at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. He is frequently featured in major media, such as CNN, Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, The Times, BBC, Sky Sports, Guardian, Der Spiegel, El Pais, Globo and many others.

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Susan Rieger is the author of The Heirs and The Divorce Papers. A graduate of Columbia Law School, she has worked as a residential college dean at Yale and as an associate provost at Columbia. She has taught law to undergraduates at both schools and written frequently about the law for newspapers and magazines. Rieger lives in New York City with her husband, the writer David Denby.

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Adam Nagourney covers national politics for The New York Times. Since joining the newspaper in 1996, he has served as Los Angeles bureau chief, West Coast cultural affairs reporter, chief national political correspondent, and chief New York political reporter. He is the co-author of Out for Good, a history of the modern gay rights movement.

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Lola Milholland is a small food business owner, social practice artist, and writer. Her work has been published by Gastronomica, Oregon Humanities, Meat Paper, Compound Butter, and others. A former editor for Edible Portland magazine, she currently lives in Portland, Oregon, and runs Umi Organic, a noodle company with a commitment to providing nutritious public school lunch.

A producer at France Inter for over twenty years, Philippe Collin studied history and has always maintained a strong interest in the field. In 2021, he created a series of historical podcasts that have been downloaded 40 million times.

He is also a graphic-novel writer and co-author of Le Voyage de Marcel Grob (2018), inspired by the story of his great-uncle during the Second World War.

The Barman of the Ritz is his first novel.

Stéphanie Delpon is an art director, photographer, screenwriter, and author. After graduating from the Parisian business school ESCP, she first explored a career in banking, then moved to the United States to work for a tech startup, before returning to Paris and founding her own creative agency, Pictoresq. The agency specialises in the luxury goods sector, focusing on brand image and video production, and has worked on advertising campaigns for Christian Louboutin, Lacoste, American Vintage, Marc Jacobs, L’Oréal, Mauboussin, among others.

Stéphanie also cultivates her sense of bohemian aestheticism through her writing and photography. She exhibited her work for the first time at Paris’s prestigious Hôtel de Ville in 2023, and is currently writing her first TV series, Superhost.

Originally a press journalist, Laure de Rivières founded the communications agency La Machine à Écrire in 2009, which she ran for 6 years. She then moved to Los Angeles in 2015, where she began writing fiction, and where she still lives today.

In 2018, she published a collection of short stories entitled Nage Libre, and her first novel, La Belle Famille, based on a true story, was published in 2021 by Flammarion.

Pauline Claviere is the author of two novels published by Editions Grasset, Laissez-nous la nuit and Les paradis gagnés. A Sciences Po graduate, she lives between Paris and Marseille.

Arshay Cooper is the award-winning author of his memoir, A Most Beautiful Thing, and the protagonist of the critically acclaimed film by the same name. Arshay leads the A Most Beautiful Thing Inclusion Fund, which aims to break barriers within the sport of rowing.

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