Stephanie Clifford is an award-winning investigative journalist and bestselling novelist.

Her new novel, The Farewell Tour, published in March 2023 by Harper, is called "Breathtaking...a shimmering paean to the deeply flawed American West" (New York Times); "Like a particularly sharp country song, it takes cliches and untangles and renews them....Alternating chapters between Lil’s troubled past and her last-hurrah present, Clifford intensifies the feeling of history catching up with her, adding twists that underscore the consequences of trauma and its neglect." (Washington Post); "Unforgettable" (Barnes & Noble Booksellers' One-Word Reviews); and "intimate and passionate...seamlessly written...a novel that rock music fans and country music acolytes alike can enjoy—even if they can’t always appreciate one another’s music" (Southern Review of Books).

As a New York Times reporter for almost a decade, she covered law and business. She now writes long-form investigations about criminal justice and business for the Times, The New Yorker, The Economist, The Atlantic, Esquire, Elle, Wired, Bloomberg Businessweek, and other publications. Her accolades include the Loeb Award in investigative reporting; the Deborah Howell Award for Writing Excellence from the News Leaders Association; the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in explanatory reporting; the Eddie in investigative magazine journalism; the Deadline Club Award in magazine profiles; and others. Her magazine articles are frequently adapted for film, TV and streaming, including for Netflix, Lifetime and other media companies.

Everybody Rise, her first book, was a New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review editors’ choice, and translated into seven languages. She grew up in Seattle, graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, and lives in Brooklyn with her family.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Literary and foreign rights: Lisa Grubka, lisa.grubka (at) unitedtalent dot com

Film and television rights: Jason Richman, richmanj (at) unitedtalent dot com

TFT review copies and publicity: Maya Baran, maya.baran (at) harpercollins dot com

Me: cliffordwrites (at) gmail dot com