David Epstein
Science writer and best-selling author
David Epstein (FAN ’16, ’20) is a science writer and author of the New York Times bestsellers Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, and The Sports Gene. He was previously an investigative reporter at ProPublica, and prior to that a senior writer at Sports Illustrated. His two TED Talks on human development and performance have been viewed 12 million times.
Epstein’s forthcoming book, Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better, will be published in May 2026.
Speaker's Events
Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better
Science writer and best-selling author
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times
The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports
CEO of The Atlantic
Science writer and best-selling author
Attention Span: Find Focus, Fight Distraction
Chancellor's Professor Emerita at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine
Science writer and best-selling author
Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most
Professor of Marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business
Science writer and best-selling author
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Science writer and best-selling author
Head of Lake Forest Country Day School
Late Specialization: The Surprising Key to Athletic Success
Science writer and best-selling author