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Ira Glass is the host and producer of This American Life. The hour-long public radio show usually consists of several distinct non-fiction pieces on a single theme, and has pursued surprising takes on topics as varied as true urban legends to the financial crisis. The show premiered on Chicago’s public radio station WBEZ in late 1995, and is now heard on more than 500 stations by over 1.8 million listeners each week. Glass began his career as an NPR intern in Washington, DC and held virtually every production job there before founding This American Life. Under Glass’s editorial direction, the show has won the highest honors for journalistic and broadcasting excellence including several Peabody and DuPont-Columbia awards. In 2009, Glass also published an anthology of his favorite narrative essays entitled The New Kings of Non-Fiction. In March 2007, a television adaptation of This American Life premiered on Showtime to critical acclaim. The show aired for thirteen episodes over two seasons, and won three Emmy awards.
Dave Eggers is the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity and What is the What. He co-founded the San Francisco-based writing center 826 Valencia, which now has chapters in New York, Los Angeles, Michigan, Seattle, Chicago and Boston. Eggers is also the screenwriter of two recent movies, Away We Go and Where the Wild Things Are. His most recent book, Zeitoun, recounts the tragedy one family experienced in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
