Elizabeth Weil

Weil graduated from Yale University. At present, she lives in San Francisco, California with her husband (Daniel Duane), with whom she shares two daughters.^[2] Their daughter Hannah Duane is also a writer who has been published in HuffPost^[3][4] and is a graduate of Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts.^[5]

Weil worked at the New York Times for nearly 20 years and currently writes for ProPublica. She has also published work in Matter,^[6]The Atlantic,^[7] Outside,^[8][9][10] The California Sunday Magazine,^[11] Wired,^[12] Medium,^[13] Men's Journal,^[14] Vogue,^[15][16] Mother Jones,^[17] Pacific Standard,^[18][19] The New Republic,^[20] and others.

She has received a number of accolades:

• New York Press Club Award in Feature Reporting (2016)^[21]
• Lowell Thomas Award in travel writing^[2][22]
• GLAAD Award for coverage of LGBT issues^[22]
• National Magazine Award finalist^[22]
• James Beard Award in food writing^[22][23]
• Dart Award for coverage of trauma (2016)^[24]
• Shorty Awards Journalism nominee^[25]

Weil's work has also been anthologized in Best American Sports Writing, Best American Food Writing, and America's Next Generation of Great Women Journalists.

The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After, written with Clemantine Wamariya, was published April 24, 2018 by Crown.

The book received the following accolades:

• Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Nonfiction Longlist (2019)^[26]
• Alex Award winner (2019)^[27]
• Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2018)^[28]
• New York Times Recommended Book (2018)^[29]
• Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2018^[30]
• Glamour Best Book of 2018^[31]
• Kirkus Reviews Best Biographies of 2018^[32]
• Real Simple Best Book of 2018^[31]
• New York Times Bestseller^[31]

No Cheating, No Dying: I Had a Good Marriage. Then I Tried To Make It Better. was published February 7, 2012 by Scribner.

They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus: An Incurable Dreamer Builds the First Civilian Spaceship was initially published in 2002, then republished on October 6, 2010, by Randomhouse Publishing Group.