Daniel Bergner is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and the author of six books of nonfiction—The Mind and the Moon, Sing for Your Life, What Do Women Want?, The Other Side of Desire, In the Land of Magic Soldiers, and God of the Rodeo—as well as a novel, Moments of Favor. Sing for Your Life was a New York Times bestseller and a New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book of the Year.