Adrienne Brodeur has been the Executive Director of Aspen Words since 2016, overseeing the budget, team, and strategic planning efforts for the Aspen Institute’s literary arts program. She is also the bestselling author of the memoir, Wild Game, a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, NPR, People, and the Washington Post and is in development as a Netflix film, and the novel, Little Monsters, a New York Times Editors’ Choice. She founded the literary magazine, Zoetrope: All-Story with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, was an acquiring editor at HMH Books, and served as a judge for the National Book Award. Her essays have appeared in Bon Appetit, Glamour, O Magazine, The National, The New York Times, Vogue, and other publications.

Authored by Adrienne:

IDEAS Article IDEAS: the Magazine of the Aspen Institute Winter 2017 Longform

Promised Land

Eric L. Motley’s new memoir is a distinctly American journey of hope and faith—from reconstruction to the present.

December 1, 2017

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Tell Us the Books that Changed Your Worldview

To celebrate the Aspen Words Literary Prize, share the books that impacted you the most.

May 24, 2017