Amanda Cook is Vice President and Editorial Director at Crown. She publishes idea-driven and narrative nonfiction across a number of subject areas, including current affairs, science, history, psychology, politics, and economics, and has worked with a wide range of writers and scholars, including Matthew Desmond, Erik Larson, Rebecca Skloot, Sheri Fink, Brian Goldstone, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Timothy Snyder. Her recent books include Matthew Desmond’s #1 New York Times bestseller, Poverty, By America, and Evicted, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction and was named one of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century; Erik Larson’s The Demon of Unrest, The Splendid and the Vile, and Dead Wake, all #1 New York Times bestsellers; Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction, longlisted for the National Book Award; Cornell philosopher Kate Manne’s Unshrinking, a finalist for the National Book Award; and Harvard political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt’s international bestseller How Democracies Die.