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Meghan Cox Gurdon

Meghan Cox Gurdon
Meghan Cox Gurdon is an essayist, book critic, and former foreign correspondent who has been The Wall Street Journal's children's book reviewer since 2005. Her work has appeared widely, in publications such as The Washington Examiner, The Daily Telegraph, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and National Review. A graduate of Bowdoin College, she lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband, Hugo Gurdon, and their five children.


Rediscovering the Lost Power
of Reading Aloud

Meghan Cox Gurdon Traces the History of Oral Storytelling
January 22, 2020  By Meghan Cox Gurdon
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The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud

From Zora Neale Hurston to Chen Guangcheng, How Reading Aloud Saves Lives
January 17, 2019  By Meghan Cox Gurdon
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