Ruth Whippman — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Author of "America the Anxious, How Our Pursuit of Happiness is Creating a Nation of Nervous Wrecks" (2016), a New York Post Best Book of 2016 and New York Times Editors' Choice.
Author of the forthcoming book "BOYMOM, Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity" (June 2024).
Co-host of "Feminist Detective," a regular segment on the public radio show "Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller."
Contributor to The New York Times, Time magazine, Time.com, and The Guardian.
Speaker at venues including TEDx, Google Talks, and The Moth.
Previously a series producer and producer/director of documentaries and factual television for the BBC and Channel 4.

Biography

Ruth Whippman is an author, journalist, and speaker known for her essays, cultural criticism, and op-eds published in The New York Times, Time magazine, Time.com, and The Guardian.

She is the author of "America the Anxious, How Our Pursuit of Happiness is Creating a Nation of Nervous Wrecks" (2016), which was a New York Post Best Book of 2016, a New York Times Editors' Choice, and a Daily Mail Must Read.