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Kathryn Schulz

Biography

Kathryn Schulz

Kathryn Schulz is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of BEING WRONG. She won a National Magazine Award and a Pulitzer Prize for “The Really Big One,” her article about seismic risk in the Pacific Northwest. LOST & FOUND grew out of “Losing Streak,” a New Yorker story that was anthologized in The Best American Essays. Her work has also appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing, The Best American Travel Writing and The Best American Food Writing. A native of Ohio, she lives with her family on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Kathryn Schulz

Books by Kathryn Schulz

Lost & Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude, and Happiness
by Kathryn Schulz - Memoir, Nonfiction

One spring morning, Kathryn Schulz went to lunch with a stranger and fell in love. Having spent years looking for the right relationship, she was dazzled by how swiftly everything changed when she finally met her future wife. But as the two of them began building a life together, Schulz’s beloved father --- a charming, brilliant, absentminded Jewish refugee --- went into the hospital with a minor heart condition and never came out. Newly in love yet also newly bereft, Schulz was left contending simultaneously with wild joy and terrible grief. Those twin experiences form the heart of LOST & FOUND, a profound meditation on the families that make us and the families we make. But Schulz’s book also explores how disappearance and discovery shape us all.