
Steven Johnson is the bestselling author of twelve books, including Enemy of All Mankind, Farsighted, Wonderland, How We Got to Now, Where Good Ideas Come From, The Invention of Air, The Ghost Map, and Everything Bad Is Good for You. He's the host of the podcast American Innovations, and the host and co-creator of the PBS and BBC series How We Got to Now. Johnson lives in Marin County, California, and Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and three sons.

2009

The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
2001

A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
2020

2005

A Short History of Living Longer
2019

The Astonishing Story of How We Doubled Our Lifespan
2023

How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
2018

The Case for Progress in a Networked Age
2012

2018

Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
2014

How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create & Communicate
1997

Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
1999

The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
2006

A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
2024

Essentials for Inventing What Is Next
2011

2008

The Natural History of Innovation
2010

How Play Made the Modern World
2016