Barbara Bradley Hagerty is the New York Times bestselling author of Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife (Riverhead Books, 2016) and Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality (Riverhead, 2009). She regularly contributes to The Atlantic and NPR.
 Barb worked for NPR for 19 years (1995-2014), covering law and religion. Before NPR, Barb covered law and economics for The Christian Science Monitor, and later serving as the Monitor’s Asia correspondent based in Japan. Barb was graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Williams College in 1981. She lives in Washington, DC with her husband, Devin.