Bruce Handy

Bruce Handy is an author, journalist, essayist, critic, humorist, and editor. His first book for young readers, The Happiness of a Dog with a Ball in Its Mouth , was named a Best Children's Book of 2021 by the New York Times . Handy is also the author of Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult (Simon & Schuster). He has also worked as a writer-editor at Vanity Fair, Time, Esquire, and Spy and has contributed to the New York Times Magazine , the New York Times Book...See more

Bruce Handy is an author, journalist, essayist, critic, humorist, and editor. His first book for young readers, The Happiness of a Dog with a Ball in Its Mouth , was named a Best Children's Book of 2021 by the New York Times . Handy is also the author of Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult (Simon & Schuster). He has also worked as a writer-editor at Vanity Fair, Time, Esquire, and Spy and has contributed to the New York Times Magazine , the New York Times Book Review, New York , and the New Yorker , as well as other publications that don't have New York in their titles, including The Atlantic and the Wall Street Journal . He currently lives in New York with his wife, the novelist Helen Schulman. See less