David Talbot

David Talbot’s latest book, “Between Heaven and Hell: The Story of My Stroke,” was praised by Anne Lamott as “touching, informative, sometimes funny, sometimes harrowing.” He is the esteemed author of popular history books including “Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years” and “The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government,” and the founder and original editor-in-chief of one of the first entirely digital publications, Salon. A former senior editor of Mother Jones, Talbot is a journalist and columnist who has written for The New Yorker, Time, Rolling Stone, the Guardian, the San Francisco Chronicle, and other publications. His book “Season of the Witch” was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller for four years, and was San Francisco’s 2015 One City One Book pick.