Jessica Allen

Jessica Allen is an author who writes on culture, food and travel. She is the author of The Great American Read: The Book of Books (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2018), the companion to the PBS series of the same name. Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, CBS, The Christian Science Monitor, CNN, The Independent, McSweeney's, Mental Floss, The Onion A.V. Club, Paste, Publishers Weekly, Roads & Kingdoms, Salon, The Smart Set, The Toast, The Washington Post, and Writer's Digest.

She lives in, works in, and writes about New York City.