Maria Popova

Maria Popova is a reader and writer, who writes about what she reads on Brain Pickings — her one-woman labor of love. It is an inquiry into what it means to live a decent, substantive, rewarding life, and a record of her own becoming as a person. In 2021, the site archive was included in the Library of Congress. Maria has contributed articles to The New York Times, Wired UK, and The Atlantic, among others, and is the co-editor of A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader and author of Figuring.

Maria Popova's Titles

The Snail with the Right Heart

★ A Kirkus Best Book of 2021: A Best Informational Picture Book★ A Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) Best Children's Book of...

Velocity of Being Letters to A Young Reader

A Velocity of Being

A Brain Pickings Best Children's Book of the Year "An embarrassment of riches." The New York TimesAn expansive collection of love letters to...