Kathryn Schulz is an American journalist and author. She is a staff writer at ''

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''. In 2016, she won the

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for her article on the risk of a major earthquake and tsunami in the

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Biography

Schulz was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, to teacher Margot Schulz and lawyer Isaac Schulz. Her sister is the MIT cognitive scientist Laura Schulz. Schulz has described her family as "a fiercely intellectual family that is very interested in ideas." Schulz graduated from

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in 1992. She matriculated at

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, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in history in 1996. After graduation Schulz planned to take a year off before pursuing a Ph.D.; she lived in Portland, Oregon briefly before moving to Costa Rica with her sister's family. Seeking to remain in Latin America and use her Spanish, Schulz became an editor and reporter at ''

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.'' Through the experience she "realized that erattraction to ideas could be pursued without returning to academia." She returned to the United States in 2001, moving to New York City to work for '' Grist.'' Kathryn_Schulz_-_PopTech_2010_-_Camden,_Maine

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In 2015, Schulz became a staff writer for ''

'', where she has written about everything from the legacy of an early Muslim immigrant in Wyoming to the radical life of civil rights activist

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to Henry David Thoreau's Walden to brown marmorated stinkbugs. In 2016, she won the

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for feature writing and a

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for “The Really Big One,” her story on seismic risk in the Pacific Northwest. Previously, she was the book critic for ''New York''. She is the author of the book ''Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error''. Her second book, ''Lost & Found'', was published by Random House on January 11, 2022. Schulz was a 2004 recipient of the Pew Fellowship in International Journalism (now the

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), and has reported from throughout Central and South America, Japan and the Middle East.

Reviews and honors

In 2016, Schulz won the

and the

for "The Really Big One," an article about seismic risk in the Pacific Northwest. She was also a finalist for the 2017 National Magazine Award for "When Things Go Missing," an essay about loss and the death of her father. Reviewing her book ''Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error'' (2010),

Dwight Garner Dwight Garner (born January 8, 1965) is an American journalist and longtime writer and editor for ''The New York Times''. In 2008, he was named a book critic for the newspaper. He is the author of ''Garner's Quotations: A Modern Miscellany'' and ...

wrote: "Ms. Schulz's book is a funny and philosophical meditation on why error is mostly a humane, courageous and extremely desirable human trait. She flies high in the intellectual skies, leaving beautiful sunlit contrails." Daniel Gilbert described her as "a warm, witty and welcome presence who confides in her readers rather than lecturing them. It doesn't hurt that she combines lucid prose with perfect comic timing." Her writing has appeared in '' The Best American Essays'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and The '' Best American Science Writing''.

Personal life

Schulz is married to

Casey Cep Casey Cep is an American author and journalist. Cep is a staff writer at ''The New Yorker'', and her work has appeared in ''The New York Times'', The Paris Review, ''The New Republic'', and other publications. Cep's debut non-fiction book, publis ...

, a fellow staff writer at ''The New Yorker''; Schulz wrote about falling in love with her in ''Lost & Found''. They live with their infant daughter on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, near where Cep grew up.

Bibliography

Books

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Essays and reporting

“Did Antidepressants Depress Japan?”
''The New York Times Magazine'', August 22, 2004
“Being Left: Reflections on Love and Politics,”
''The Nation'', December 20, 2004
“Brave Neuro World”
''The Nation'', January 9, 2006

The Huffington Post, November 16, 2009
“Life in Hell”
''Foreign Policy'', January 12, 2010
“Thanks for Admitting the Blindingly Obvious”
''The New York Times'', June 8, 2010
“The Bright Side of Wrong”
''The Boston Globe'', June 13, 2010
The United Mistakes of America
(July 28, 2010). ''The New York Times Freakonomics Blog.''

(May 6, 2013) ''New York.'' * [https://www.vulture.com/2014/06/missoula-montana-thunderbird-motel-greg-hemingway-gloria.html#_ga=2.100191837.276328149.1589361489-1797825044.1589361489 A Visit With the Missoula Motel-Keeper Who Sheltered a Hemingway] (June 3, 2014). ''New York.''
Final Forms
(April 7, 2014). ''The New Yorker''.
On “Wintry Mix”
(February 2, 2015). ''The New Yorker''.
How to Train Your Raptor
(March 2, 2015) ''The New Yorker''.
A Beginner’s Guide to Invisibility
(April 6, 2015) ''The New Yorker''.
What Part of "No, Totally?" Don't You Understand?
(April 7, 2015). ''The New Yorker''. * * * Title in the online table of contents is "The earthquake that will devastate the Pacific Northwest".
How to Stay Safe When the Big One Comes
(July 28, 2015). ''The New Yorker''.
The Moral Judgments of Henry David Thoreau
(October 15, 2015). ''The New Yorker''.
"Pond Scum"
''The New Yorker'', October 19, 2015
What We Think About When We Run
(November 3, 2015). ''The New Yorker''. * Title in the online table of contents is "Talk about the weather".
"Dead Certainty: How ‘Making a Murderer’ goes wrong"
''The New Yorker'', January 25, 2016
The Perilous Lure of the Underground Railroad
(August 15, 2016). ''The New Yorker''.
The Really Small Ones
(November 4, 2016). ''The New Yorker''.
Citizen Kahn
(June 6, 2016). ''The New Yorker''.
When Things Go Missing
(February 13, 2017). ''The New Yorker''.
What Calling Congress Achieves
(March 6, 2017). ''The New Yorker''.
The Many Lives of Pauli Murray
(April 17, 2017). ''The New Yorker''. * Online version is titled "Literature’s Arctic obsession".
How to be a Know-It-All
(October 16, 2017). ''The New Yorker''. *
The Lost Giant of American Literature
(January 29, 2018). ''The New Yorker''.
When Twenty-Six Thousand Stinkbugs Invade Your Home
(March 12, 2018). ''The New Yorker''.
Why Two Chefs in Small-Town Utah Are Battling President Trump
(October 1, 2019) ''The New Yorker''.
My Father’s Stack of Books
(March 18, 2019). ''The New Yorker''.
Oregon’s Tsunami Risk: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
(July 1, 2019). ''The New Yorker''. * Available on website only. * Online version is titled "Why animals don't get lost".

Book reviews

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References

External links

Official WebsiteKathryn Schultz at ''The New Yorker''

''Being Wrong''
at HarperCollins
Kathryn Schulz author page
HarperCollins * Dwight Garner

''The New York Times'', June 10, 2010 * Daniel Gilbert

''The New York Times'', Sunday Book Review, July 23, 2010
"Kathryn Schulz On Learning To Love 'Being Wrong'"
NPR. June 7, 2010 * Stuart Jeffries
"Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz" (review)
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