Elizabeth Weil – Writing and Publishing Stories About People Who Live Their Wild Ideas

Elizabeth Weil writes about those who live outside the normal boundaries of society and pursue their own wild ideas. She has written about everyone from snowboarder Shaun White and skier Mikaela Shiffrin to swimmer Diana Nyad, Senator Kristen Gillibrand and a man named Doba who kayaked across the Atlantic in his seventies. In addition to writing articles for The New York Times Magazine, Outside Magazine, Wired, and more, she recently penned New York Times bestseller The Girl Who Smiles Beads.