Bruce Feiler
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Bruce Feiler

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BRUCE FEILER is one of America’s most thoughtful voices on contemporary life–he uses original research into life transitions, life rituals, and life stories to help people find meaning and purpose in times of change. Bruce is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers, including LIFE IS IN THE TRANSITIONS, THE SECRETS OF HAPPY FAMILIES, WALKING THE BIBLE, and COUNCIL OF DADS. His three TED Talks have been viewed more than five million times; he teaches the Webby Award-winning TED Course HOW TO MASTER LIFE TRANSITIONS; and he is a fellow at the Stanford Computational Psychology and Well-Being Lab, which is writing an AI large language model based on his work. Bruce’s latest book, A TIME TO GATHER: How Ritual Created the World — and How It Can Save Us (May 2026), describes his 50,000-mile journey to sixteen countries on six continents chronicling the astonishing rise of reinvented life rituals around the world. From the Vatican to Bali, Las Vegas to Ireland, A TIME TO GATHER is both a stirring adventure and a practical guide, offering a blueprint for restoring togetherness with gatherings you’ll love. Employing a firsthand approach to his work, Bruce is known for living the experiences he writes about. LIFE IS IN THE TRANSITIONS describes his journey across America, collecting hundreds of life stories, exploring how we can navigate life’s growing number of life transitions with purpose and skill. “One of those books that’s so profoundly aligned with the zeitgeist that you end up underlining the whole book,” Arianna Huffington wrote in Thrive Global. “Bruce Feiler is the perfect person to lead us on this journey.” The book was a Top 10 New York Times bestseller. WALKING THE BIBLE describes his 10,000-mile journey retracing the Five Books of Moses through the desert. (“An instant classic,” Washington Post). The book spent a year and a half on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into fifteen languages. ABRAHAM recounts his search for the shared ancestor of the monotheistic religions. (“Exquisitely written,” Boston Globe). WHERE GOD WAS BORN describes his trek visiting biblical sites throughout Israel, Iraq, and Iran. (“Bruce Feiler is a real-life Indiana Jones,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution). AMERICA’S PROPHET is the groundbreaking story of the influence of Moses on American history. THE FIRST LOVE STORY is a journey across four continents exploring how Adam and Eve shaped our deepest feelings about relationships. (“A miraculous thing—the literary equivalent of breathing new life into a figure of clay,” New York Times Book Review; “Feiler’s best work yet,” Publishers Weekly). Bruce is the writer/presenter of two prime-time series on PBS: WALKING THE BIBLE (“Beguiling,” Wall Street Journal) and SACRED JOURNEYS WITH BRUCE FEILER, in which he retraces pilgrimages in France, India, Japan, Israel, Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia. (“Feiler is the perfect guide,” Newsday). A longtime columnist at the New York Times, Bruce now writes the popular newsletter THE NONLINEAR LIFE. He has appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, and Gourmet, where he won three James Beard Awards. He is a frequent commentator on radio and television. A former circus clown, he has been the subject of a Jay Leno joke and a JEOPARDY! question, and his face appears on a postage stamp in the Grenadines. A native of Savannah, Georgia, Bruce lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Linda Rottenberg, and their identical twin daughters.
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    • Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World
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