Jack El-Hai is an award-winning writer who has published hundreds of articles and more than a dozen books. He has led workshops and given talks at the Mayo Clinic, the University of Minnesota, Yale University, Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of Michigan, the University of Mississippi, the University of Iowa, the University of Maryland, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Toronto, Tufts University, Cornell University, Carleton College, the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, and many other institutions. He has also given talks at conferences of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the American Psychological Association, and other organizations.

Jack’s books include Face in the Mirror, The Lost Brothers, The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness, and The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Herman Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII, translated into more than a dozen languages. 

He has contributed articles to Scientific American, Wired, Discover, GQ, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, Aeon, The Washington Post Magazine, and many other publications. Some of these articles have won the June Roth Memorial Award for Medical Journalism, Outstanding Article honors from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and other awards.

His other writing honors include two Minnesota Book Awards, a McKnight Fellowship, and the annual book award of the Medical Journalists’ Association of the United Kingdom. Jack formerly served as the Board Chair of the Loft Literary Center and president of the American Society of Journalists and Authors. 

He lives in Minneapolis and is represented by literary agent Laura Langlie, performance-rights agent Mary Pender, and speakers-bureau agent Jayme Boucher.