Lauren Sandler is the author of the new bestselling book One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One, and Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement. She has written investigative reporting, features, opinion pieces, and personal essays on gender, religion, and cultural politics for publications including Time, The New York Times, Slate, New York, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, The Nation, The New Republic, Business Week, Elle, Marie Claire, and Salon. She has appeared on NPR, PBS, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and the BBC.  She lives in Brooklyn.