Jack El-Hai is a Minneapolis author of several nonfiction books, including The Lobotomist, The Lost Brothers, and The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, among others. His writing has been published in The Atlantic, Wired, GQ, Discover, Scientific American Mind, and Minnesota Monthly. He has received two Minnesota Book Awards, the June Roth Memorial Award for Medical Journalism, and fellowships and grants from the McKnight Foundation and the Jerome Foundation.