Ruth Whippman is an author, journalist, and essayist whose writing appears in the New York Times, Time magazine and The Guardian, amongst other places. Her viral essays, including Enough Leaning In, Now it’s Time for Men to Lean Out, Can we Really Love our Children Unconditionally, Everything is for Sale Now, Even Us, and What We are Not Teaching Boys about Being Human, have been shared hundreds of thousands of times on social media. She also writes the Substack, I Blame Society.

She is the author of Boymom, Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity and America the Anxious, How Our Pursuit of Happiness is Creating a Nation of Nervous Wrecks (UK title: The Pursuit of Happiness). America the Anxious was a New York Post Best Book of 2016, A New York Times Editors’ Choice and Paperback Row pick, one of Newsweek’s Nine Books to Change the Way You Think in 2016, a Sunday Times Top Summer Read and a Daily Mail Must Read.
Fortune Magazine described Ruth as one of the “sharpest minds” of the decade and selected her work as one of “25 ideas to shape the 2020s”. The Sunday Times described Ruth as a “whip-sharp British Bill Bryson”.

Ruth regularly contributes to radio and podcasts, is a regular speaker and has given talks at Google as part of the “Authors at Google” series, TEDx, Somerset House in London, UC Berkeley, and several other venues.

Before becoming a full time writer, Ruth was a producer and director at the BBC in London making documentaries and current affairs shows for BBC television. She lives in California with her husband and three young sons.