Tara Isabella Burton is the author of the novels The World Cannot Give (S&S, 2022) and Social Creature (Doubleday, 2018), and the nonfiction Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World (Public Affairs, 2020). Her next book, Self-Made: Creating Our Identities From Da Vinci to the Kardashians, will be published by Public Affairs in June 2023. She has additionally written on religion and culture for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and more. She holds a DPhil in Theology from the University of Oxford, where she was a Clarendon Scholar.