Amanda Ripley

Amanda Ripley writes magazine articles and books about human behaviour and public policy. She is the author of The Smartest Kids in the World—and How They Got That Way, a New York Times bestseller, and The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why. Her next book, High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out, will be published by Simon & Schuster in 2021.