Elizabeth DeWolf is an editor and writer living in Los Angeles. She edits nonfiction books about politics and culture, and she is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, where she writes author interviews and edits reviews and essays. Her previous work has involved researching and writing about sociology, urban design, housing, public policy, and the criminal legal system. She grew up in Massachusetts, studied sociology and painting at Trinity College in Connecticut, and got her masters in city design and social science from the London School of Economics and Political Science.