graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He now resides in Brooklyn, New York. He is married to Jancee Dunn, a former features writer for Rolling Stone. Vanderbilt was a contestant on the game show Jeopardy!, appearing on an episode which aired on December 30, 2011. Publications As author The Sneaker Book: Anatomy of an Industry and an Icon, The New Press, 1998 Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America, Princeton Architectural Press, 2002 Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), Knopf, 2008 You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice, Penguin Random House, May 2016 Beginners: The Curious Power of Lifelong Learning, Knopf, 2021 As contributor He has also contributed to a number of books, including: Season’s Gleamings: The Art of the Aluminum Christmas Tree, Melcher Media, 2004 (afterword) Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age, The MIT Press, Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler, W.W. Norton, Boob Jubilee: The Mad Cultural Politics of the New Economy (W.W. Norton), and The World and the Wild (University of Arizona Press). References External links Tom Vanderbilt's Twitter page Tom Vanderbilt’s Flickr page NPR article and interview (audio), July 28, 2008 Google Lecture, August 15, 2008 Video discussion with Vanderbilt about his works on Bloggingheads.tv Online articles Harvard Design Review, It’s a Mall World After All: Disney, Design, and the American Dream, Fall 1999 New York Times, Walker in the Wireless City, November 24, 2002 New York Times, When Pedestrians Get Mixed Signals, February 1, 2014 Slate, Courier, Dispatched: How the U.S. State Department put the kibosh on the typewriter font., February 20, 2004 Slate U.S. Army's New ClothesWhy has the Army redesigned its uniforms?, Sept. 8, 2004 The Guardian Is this Bush's secret bunker?, August 28, 2006 1968 births Jeopardy! contestants Living people People from Brooklyn Writers from New York (state) Writers from Wisconsin Date of birth missing (living people) American male writers People from Oak Forest, Illinois