Cody Delistraty is a journalist and author in New York City.
His 2024 book The Grief Cure: Looking for the End of Loss was published by Harper and nominated for PEN America’s PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction.
He is currently writing a narrative nonfiction book on a star-studded group of Spiritualists and psychical researchers who sought to prove the afterlife while solving a celebrity murder in the waning years of Victorian London.
As a journalist, he most frequently contributes to The New York Times Opinion section, where he writes on the history of technology. He previously worked at The Wall Street Journal‘s magazine as its culture editor and at The Paris Review as its European arts columnist. British Vogue named him one of the best young writers of the year.
He holds degrees in history and politics from Oxford, NYU, and the Institut d’études politiques de Paris.
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Author photo by Grace Ann Leadbeater.
