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Amanda Ripley is an American journalist and author. She has written features for Time magazine, and contributes to The Atlantic. Her book The Smartest Kids in the World was a New York Times bestseller.
After covering Capitol Hill for Congressional Quarterly, she worked on long-form feature stories for the Washington City Paper under editor David Carr. She then spent a decade working for Time magazine from New York, Washington and Paris. She covered the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the 2001 anthrax investigation, and Hurricanes Katrina and Hurricane Rita, helping Time win two National Magazine Awards.
Ripley has written three nonfiction books about human behavior, including The Smartest Kids in the World, a New York Times bestseller. In 2018, she became certified in conflict mediation and began training journalists to cover polarizing conflicts, in partnership with the Solutions Journalism Network. Ripley writes op-eds for The Washington Post, and feature articles for Politico and The Atlantic, where she is a contributing writer. "Amanda Ripley Author Page" The Atlantic She also hosts the "How To!" show for Slate magazine.
She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband. Her brother is the screenwriter Ben Ripley.
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