Alexander Stille is a journalist and author of six books as well as a professor of international journalism at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. His most recent book, The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy and the Wild Life of an Urban Commune (2023, FSG), describes the forty-year history of a remarkable community that began as a psychoanalytic institute (The Sullivan Institute) and evolved into a community of 250 to 300 people and devolved during the 1970s into something more like a cult.

Stille graduated with a B.A. from Yale University and earned an M.S. at Columbia. He has worked as a contributor to The New York Times, La Repubblica, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Correspondent, U.S. News & World Report, The Boston Globe, and The Globe and Mail.