Daniel Bergner is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the author of four books of nonfiction: What Do Women Want?, The Other Side of Desire, In the Land of Magic Soldiers, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year, and God of the Rodeo, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Bergner’s writing has also appeared in Granta, Harper’s, The New York Times Book Review, and on the op-ed page of The New York Times.