Bruce Feiler (born October 25, 1964) is an American writer and television personality. He is the author of 15 books, including The Council of Dads, a book that describes how he responded to a diagnosis of a rare cancer by asking a group of men to be present in the lives of his young daughters. The book was the subject of a TED Talk and inspired NBC drama series Council of Dads. His latest work explores the power of life stories. Drawing on interviews with Americans in all 50 states, he offers strategies for coping with life's unsettling times in his new book, Life Is In The Transitions. Bruce writes the "This Life" column in the Sunday New York Times and is also the writer/presenter of the PBS miniseries Walking the Bible and Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler (2014). Career Feiler is credited with formulating the Feiler faster thesis: the increasing pace of society and journalists' ability to report it is matched by the public's desire for more information. Publications he has written for include The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Gourmet, where he won three James Beard Awards. He is also a contributor to National Public Radio, CNN, and Fox News. A native of Savannah, Georgia, where he attended the Savannah Country Day School, Feiler lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Linda Rottenberg, and their twin daughters. Feiler completed his undergraduate degree at Yale University where he was a member of Ezra Stiles College, before spending time teaching English in Japan as part of the JET Program. This experience led to his first book, Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan, a portrait of life in a small Japanese town. Upon his return he earned a master's degree in international relations from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, which he chronicled in his book Looking for Class. Works Feiler is the author of Life Is In The Transitions, a book that suggests strategies for transforming life's turbulent moments into periods of creativity and growth. Informed by the sifting and coding of life story interviews across America, Feiler examines what gives our lives meaning. Adam Grant called the book, which will be published in May 2020, one of "The 20 New Leadership Books for 2020". In The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and