Bruce Feiler

Feiler is credited with formulating the Feiler faster thesis: the increasing pace of society and journalists' ability to report it is matched by the public's desire for more information. Publications he has written for include The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Gourmet, where he won three James Beard Awards. He is also a contributor to National Public Radio, CNN, and Fox News. A native of Savannah, Georgia, where he attended the Savannah Country Day School and studied with feminist author Rosemary Daniell, Feiler lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Linda Rottenberg, and their twin daughters. Feiler completed his undergraduate degree at Yale University where he was a member of Ezra Stiles College, before spending time teaching English in Japan as part of the JET Program. This experience led to his first book, Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan, a portrait of life in a small Japanese town. Upon his return he earned a master's degree in international relations from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, which he chronicled in his book Looking for Class. ==Works==

Feiler is the author of Life Is In The Transitions, a book that suggests strategies for transforming life's turbulent moments into periods of creativity and growth. In The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More Feiler drew up a blueprint for modern families — a new approach to family dynamics, inspired by techniques gathered from experts in the disciplines of science, business, sports, and the military. A story he wrote about the book for the New York Times, called The Stories that Bind Us discussed how the more children know about their family history, the higher their well-being and resilience. The piece was on the most-emailed list for a month. Feiler also did a TED talk about the book. Walking the Bible describes his 10,000-mile journey retracing the Five Books of Moses through the desert. The book was hailed as an "instant classic" by The Washington Post and "thoughtful, informed, and perceptive" by The New York Times. It spent more than a year and a half on The New York Times best-seller list, has been translated into fifteen languages, and is the subject of a children's book and a photography book. In The Council of Dads: A Story of Family, Friendship & Learning How to Live, Feiler describes how, after learning he had a seven-inch osteosarcoma in his left femur, he asked six men from all passages of his life to be present through the passages of his young daughters' lives. "I believe my daughters will have plenty of opportunities in their lives", he wrote these men. "They'll have loving families. They'll have each other. But they may not have me. They may not have their dad. Will you help be their dad?" The book was featured on the cover of USA Weekend, on The Today Show, and in People. Dr. Sanjay Gupta made a documentary about the story on CNN. Feiler began an initiative with 23andMe to decode the genome of patients with primary bone cancers. His story inspired the NBC drama series Council of Dads. Abraham recounts Feiler's search for the shared ancestor of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. The book was featured on the cover of Time magazine, was a New York Times best-seller. Where God Was Born describes Feiler's year-long trek retracing the Bible through Israel, Iraq, and Iran. ''America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story discusses the significance of Moses as a symbolic prophet throughout four-hundred years of American history. Both books were New York Times best-sellers. He also wrote about the role of Moses as a defining influence in American life, including the presidency of Barack Obama, in Time'' magazine. ==Bibliography==