Annie Murphy Paul

Author and journalist, TIME magazine

Annie Murphy Paul is an author, journalist, and consultant who helps people understand how we learn and how we can do it better. A contributing writer for TIME magazine, Ms. Murphy Paul writes a weekly column about learning for Time.com and blogs about learning at CNN.com, Forbes.com, MindShift.com, PsychologyToday.com, and HuffingtonPost.com. She contributes to The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Slate, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among other publications. Ms. Murphy Paul is the author of The Cult of Personality, a cultural history and scientific critique of personality tests; Origins, a book about the science of prenatal influences; and her latest book, Brilliant: The New Science of Smart.