Gayle Feldman has written for Publishers Weekly for 40 years, including as a senior staff editor; since 1999, as U.S. correspondent for The Bookseller, she has analyzed the American book business for U.K. readers; and she has contributed features and reviews on books and culture to The New York Times, The Nation, The Daily Beast and other publications. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Times of London.

She is the author of the cancer memoir YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE YOUR MOTHER, published by W. W. Norton, and was awarded a National Arts Journalism Program fellowship at Columbia University, through which she published BEST AND WORST OF TIMES: The Changing Business of Trade Books. The National Endowment for the Humanities has supported her work on Nothing Random with a Public Scholars award. She lives in New York City and Sag Harbor.