Contributors

Francis Fukuyama is the author of The End of History, The Great Disruption, Our Posthuman Future, State Building,After the Neocons, The Origins of Political Order and Political Order and Political Decay. All have been hugely influential international bestsellers, translated and published in many languages. He is Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford.

Dr. Nathan Fox is a professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Maternal Fetal Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He has a busy clinical practice of high-risk obstetrics, regularly publishes his peer-reviewed clinical research, and is invited to lecture nationally and internationally on pregnancy-related topics. He is also the host of the Healthful Woman Podcast. He has four children.

Michael Frank is the author of the memoir The Mighty Franks and the novel What is Missing. His essays, articles, and short stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and The TLS, among other publications. He served as a Contributing Writer to the Los Angeles Times Book Review for nearly ten years. A recipient of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives with his family in New York City and Liguria, Italy.

Karen Joy Fowler is the author of six novels and three short story collections. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014, won the PEN/Faulkner Prize and has sold over half a million copies. www.karenjoyfowler.com

Alexandra Fuller was born in England in 1969. In 1972, she moved with her family to a farm in southern Africa. She lived in Africa until her midtwenties. In 1994, she moved to Wyoming. She is the author of several memoirs, including Leaving Before the Rains Come, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, and Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

Director of film promotion company The Creative Partnership, Christopher Fowler is the author of twelve novels, as well as numerous screenplays and collections of short stories. His first novel, the bestseller Roofworld, has been developed as a film. One of his short stories, The Master Builder, became a CBS movie starring Tippi Hedren. Another, Left Hand Drive, won Best British Short Film in 1993. The short story 'American Waitress' in Demonized won the British Fantasy Society's Best Short Fiction Prize 2004.

Danny Fontaine coaches teams and pitches multi-million-dollar deals to the biggest brands in the world. His unique approach blends creativity, psychology, storytelling and immersive experiences, based on years of research and application.

Danny also hosts the Pitch Masters podcast where he interviews the masters of the advertising, sales and marketing industries to find out how they win business.

He has taught photography, done voice-over work, been the lead singer in a band, earned a Fine Art degree, and done many other seemingly irrelevant things that fuel his creative work in surprising ways. Pitch is his first book. He lives in Colchester with his wife and three sons.

Tiago Forte has conducted an annual life review every year since 2008. Over nearly two decades, that practice evolved from a simple end-of-year ritual into the ARC Method-a framework for cultivating the one thing modern life seems structurally designed to deny: perspective.

He is the bestselling author of Building a Second Brain and The PARA Method, which together have reached more than half a million readers in over twenty-five languages. Through his company Forte Labs, he has trained over ten thousand students from more than seventy countries in the practice of thinking clearly and living with intention.

His work has been featured in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and TIME. He lives in Valle de Bravo, Mexico – a small town on a volcanic lake – with his wife and two children.

Find out more at Fortelabs.com

Paul Fournel is a French writer, poet, publisher and cultural ambassador. He was awarded the Prix Goncourt for short fiction for Les Athlètes dans leur tête. His Besoin de Vélo (translated into English as Need for the Bike and Vélo) is a classic cycling text, in which he describes himself as the Proust of the chute. Anquetil, Alone is translated by Nick Caistor.