Ann Hulbert is the author of Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children, The Interior Castle: The Life and Art of Jean Stafford, and Off the Charts. Her articles and reviews have appeared in many publications, including The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, and The Atlantic, where she is the literary editor. She lives with her husband, Stephen Sestanovich, in Washington D.C.