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“In this keenly observed and deeply felt biography, Erica Wagner brings Washington Roebling to life, examining both the rigorous mathematics and the complex psychology involved in envisioning one of mankind’s greatest built monuments. The narrative is intensely absorbing, the prose tremendously clear, and the characters genuinely unforgettable. This is history of the first order.” —Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon and Far From the Tree

Chief Engineer, my biography of Washington Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge, appears in June from Bloomsbury on both sides of the Atlantic. I’ll be in the UK and the States over the summer to promote it — watch this space! I’m very glad I’m so pleased to be Consulting Literary Editor for Harper’s Bazaar; I write for the magazine every month, and blog for them here. I’m a Contributing Writer for The New Statesman, as well as writing for The Financial Times, The Economist, The New York Times… follow me @EricaWgnr where I’ll post links to my pieces!

And since 2017 is the 50th anniversary of the publication of Alan Garner’s The Owl Service, don’t forget that First Light, the book of essays I have edited for Unbound about the great Alan Garner — with contributions from Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Fry, Ali Smith, Rowan Williams and many others — is just waiting to leap on to your shelves. Here’s a piece about it in the Guardian.