Ariel Gore

"Can anyone be creative?"

"Can a person be at once smart, empowered, and happy?"

"What is the secret to well being?"

Ariel Gore wanted to know, so she began a "study in living"- a journey into the history, science, and experiences of happiness and creativity. Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) chronicles the often-surprising answers answers about happiness. She is still at work on the question of creativity. An award-winning journalist, Gore is also the author of numerous books on parenting, the novel The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show, and the memoir Atlas of the Human Heart.