David Goodwillie is the author of the novels KINGS COUNTY (forthcoming 7/28/20) and AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, along with the memoir SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME. Goodwillie has written about books for The New York Times and The Daily Beast, and his nonfiction has appeared in New York magazine, Newsweek, and Popular Science. He has also been drafted to play professional baseball, worked as a private investigator, and was an expert at Sotheby’s auction house. A graduate of Kenyon College, he lives in Brooklyn.