Maria Konnikova is the author of
Mastermind and
The Confidence Game. She is a regular contributing writer for The New Yorker, and has written for the
Atlantic, the
New York Times, Slate, the
New Republic, the
Paris Review, the
Wall Street Journal, Salon, the
Boston Globe, the
Scientific American MIND, WIRED, and
Smithsonian. Maria graduated from Harvard University and received her
Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia University.
