Jeff Sharlet is the New York Times bestselling author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (Harper, 2008) and a contributing editor for Harper's magazine and Rolling Stone. He is the co-author, with Peter Manseau, of Killing the Buddha, named by Publishers Weekly one of the ten best religion titles of 2004, and co-editor with Manseau of Believer, Beware. In 2010 and 2011 Sharlet will publish "C Street" (Little, Brown), a study of the problems of militant fundamentalism within democracy, and "What They Wanted" (W.W. Norton), a collection of essays on radicalism within individual lives.

A Visiting Research Scholar at New York University's Center for Religion and Media, Sharlet has also written about the intersections of religion, politics, and culture for publications including The Nation, The New Republic, Mother Jones, New York, The Washington Post, Salon, Daily Beast, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oxford American, Columbia Journalism Review, The Baffler, Lapham's Quarterly, Jewish Quarterly, Forward, and Pakn Treger. He was the founding editor of TheRevealer.org, a review of media and religion supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts, and co-founder of KillingTheBuddha.com, winner of an Utne/Alternate Press Award. His work has twice been featured in the annual Best Music Writing Series and included in the National Magazine Award winning entries of Harper's and Mother Jones.

He has taught journalism and the history of American religion at New York University and lectured at colleges and universities across the country, including Princeton, Yale, Columbia, and the Naval War College. A frequent media commentator, he has been featured on NBC, MSNBC, CNN, HBO, NPR, CBC, and the BBC. He is proud to be considered by Ann Coulter as one of the stupidest journalists in America.