Eyal Press is an author and journalist based in New York. His work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, the New York Times magazine, the Nation, the Raritan Review and numerous other publications. He is the author of Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict That Divided America. A 2011 Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation, he is also a past recipient of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism.