About the Editor

RON ROSENBAUM grew upon Long Island and graduated from Bay Shore High School and Yale. He left a graduate fellowship in the Yale English Department to write full-time. His essays and journalism have appeared in The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly, Slate, Salon, and other journals, and have been collected most recently in The Secret Parts of Fortune (Random House 2000/Harper Perennial 2001).

He spent more than ten years working on Explaining Hitler, an exploration and critique of postwar attempts to account for Hitler’s crimes. Translated into ten languages, Explaining Hitler (Random House 1998/Harper Perennial 1999) was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was described by David Remnick as “a remarkable journey by one of the most original journalists and writers of our time.”

He has taught nonfiction writing at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism; he co-wrote the documentary Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero for PBS/Frontline, which won a Du Pont-Columbia University Award; and he writes a bi-weekly column for The New York Observer. He is currently working on a book about Shakespeare scholars and directors for Random House.