Jeff Sharlet is The New York Times best-selling author or editor of eight books, including The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power and This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers.
His newest book is The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War. The book is a guide to the religious dimensions of American politics, and shows how the task of binding our nation together is a daunting one, but the fate of American democracy depends on it.
Sharlet is the Frederick Sessions Beebe ’35 Professor in the Art of Writing and Director of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. His writing and photography have appeared in many publications, including Vanity Fair, for which he is a contributing editor; The New York Times Magazine; GQ; Esquire; Harper’s Weekly; and VQR, for which he is an editor at large.