Alex Star is executive editor at Farrar Straus Giroux, where he publishes nonfiction concerned with current events, history and ideas. He was previously deputy editor of The New York Times Magazine, founding editor of the Boston Globe Ideas section, and, from 1994 to 2001, editor of Lingua Franca: The Review of Academic Life. He was also assistant literary editor at The New Republic. Since 2013, he has edited three Pulitzer Prize winning books, as well as a National Book Award winner, and three of the last nine winners of the Society of American Historians’ Francis Parkman Prize. [Nonfiction]