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Amanda Ripley | |
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| Education | Cornell University (BA) |
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| Genre | non-fiction |
Amanda Ripley is an American journalist and author. She has written features for Time magazine, and contributes to The Atlantic. Her book The Smartest Kids in the World was a New York Times bestseller.
Amanda Ripley was born in Arizona and grew up in New Jersey. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University in 1996 with a B.A. in government.[citation needed]
After covering Capitol Hill for Congressional Quarterly, she worked on long-form feature stories for the Washington City Paper under editor David Carr. She then spent a decade working for Time magazine from New York, Washington and Paris. She covered the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the 2001 anthrax investigation, and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, helping[clarification needed] Time win two National Magazine Awards.
Ripley has written three nonfiction books about human behavior, including The Smartest Kids in the World, a New York Times bestseller. In 2018, she became certified in conflict mediation and began training journalists to cover polarizing conflicts, in partnership with the Solutions Journalism Network. Ripley writes op-eds for The Washington Post, and feature articles for Politico and The Atlantic, where she is a contributing writer. She also hosts the "How To!" show for Slate magazine.
She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband. Her brother is the screenwriter Ben Ripley.
