Thomas Beller is a writer and associate professor of English at Tulane University. He is a longtime contributor to the New Yorker and also writes for the New York Times, Vogue, and Town and Country, among other magazines. A founder and editor of Open City Magazine (1990–2010), his books include The Sleep-Over Artist (2000), How to Be a Man: Scenes from a Protracted Boyhood (2005), and J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist, which won the New York City Book Award for Biography/Memoir in 2015.