Susan Orlean is a bestselling author, journalist, and staff writer for The New Yorker, acclaimed for her narrative nonfiction and immersive storytelling. She is the author of multiple bestselling books, including The Orchid Thief, which inspired the Academy Award-winning film Adaptation, and The Library Book. A Guggenheim Fellow and former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, Orlean has also written for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Smithsonian. She is widely recognized as one of America’s leading literary journalists and nonfiction writers.
