Amanda Ripley is an American journalist and author. She has covered high-profile topics for ''Time'' and other outlets, and she contributes to ''The Atlantic''. Her book ''The Smartest Kids in the World'' was a ''New York Times'' bestseller.

Biography

Amanda Ripley was born in Arizona and grew up in New Jersey. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University in 1996 with a B.A. in government. After covering

Capitol Hill Capitol Hill, in addition to being a metonym for the United States Congress, is the largest historic residential neighborhood in Washington, D.C., stretching easterly in front of the United States Capitol along wide avenues. It is one of the ...

for '' Congressional Quarterly'', Ripley learned to write long-form feature stories under editor David Carr at the '' Washington City Paper''. She then spent a decade working for '' Time'' magazine from New York, Washington and Paris. She covered the

9/11 terrorist attacks The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial ...

, the anthrax investigation and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, helping ''Time'' win two National Magazine Awards. The Poetry of War and Peace

Ripley has written three investigative nonfiction books about human behavior, including ''The Smartest Kids in the World'', a ''New York Times'' bestseller. In 2018, she became certified in conflict

mediation Mediation is a structured, interactive process where an impartial third party neutral assists disputing parties in resolving conflict through the use of specialized communication and negotiation techniques. All participants in mediation are ...

and began training journalists to cover polarizing conflict differently, in partnership with the Solutions Journalism Network. Ripley writes op-eds for '' The Washington Post'' and feature articles for '' Politico'' and ''The'' ''Atlantic'', where she is a contributing writer. She also hosts the "How To!" show for ''Slate''. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband. Her brother is the screenwriter

Ben Ripley Ben Ripley is an American screenwriter best known for writing the science-fiction thriller ''Source Code'' directed by Duncan Jones. Ripley is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Southern California's USC School of Cinema-Telev ...

Works

Books

*2009. ''The Unthinkable: Who Survives when Disaster Strikes - and Why.'' New York : Arrow Books. , . *2014. ''The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way.'' New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks. , . NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller, September 22, 2013. *2021. ''High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out.'' New York, NY : Simon & Schuster. , .

Selected articles

*2010
"What Makes a Great Teacher?"
''The Atlantic''. January/February issue. *2013
"The Case Against High School Sports."
''The Atlantic''. October issue. *2016
"How America Outlawed Adolescence."
''The Atlantic''. November issue. *2018
"Complicating the Narratives."
''The Whole Story''. *2019
"The Least Politically Prejudiced Place in America."
''The Atlantic''. *2020
"We've Created Cartoonish Narratives About People in the Opposite Party. They're Not True."
''The Washington Post''. *2022
"I stopped reading the news. Is the problem me — or the product?"
''The Washington Post.''

References

External links

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How to survive a disaster
Robert Crampton. '' The Times''. June 21, 2008.
Amanda Ripley articles in the ''Atlantic''
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