Maria Popova

Maria Popova is a reader and a writer, and writes about what she reads on Brain Pickings, which is included in the Library of Congress archive of culturally valuable materials. She has previously written for Wired UK, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Nieman Journalism Lab, and Smithsonian Magazine, among others, and is an MIT Fellow. She is on Twitter as @brainpicker.

(Photo credit: Elizabeth Lippman)