Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Barbara Bradley Hagerty is a New York Times bestselling author and contributing writer for The Atlantic. Barb worked for NPR for nearly 20 years, covering criminal justice and religion. She’s received a number of awards, including the American Women in Radio and Television Award (twice) and the National Headliner's Award; her reporting was part of the NPR coverage that earned the network the 2001 George Foster Peabody and Overseas Press Club awards after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Barb earned what she calls a “baby law degree” from Yale Law School, where she attended the first year on a Knight Fellowship. Barb’s three books sprung from questions that haunted her. In Fingerprints of God, she addressed the existential question: Is there more than this? In Life Reimagined, she researched the midlife question: Is it all downhill from here? And in Bringing Ben Home, she tackled the tragic question: Why are the innocent condemned? Barb lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband, Devin, and their Golden-Lab mix, Patchett.