Daniel Brook

Daniel Brook is the author of The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner Take All America (Times Books/​Henry Holt, 2007) and a journalist whose work has appeared in publications including Harper's, The Nation, and Slate. He has received fellowships from The Library of Congress, The Century Foundation, The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and The Black Mountain Institute and was the winner of the 2010 Winterhouse Award for Design Criticism and Writing. Brook was born in Brooklyn, raised on Long Island, educated at Yale, and is currently based in New Orleans, where he is at work on A History of Future Cities, to be published by W. W. Norton in 2013.