Mary Ann Gwinn

Mary Ann Gwinn writes about books and authors for Kirkus Reviews, The Los Angeles Times, The Seattle Times and other publications. A Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, she was the book editor of The Seattle Times from 1998 to 2017, a judge for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in fiction and for five years was the co-host of Well Read, a national books and authors television show. She was a nonfiction judge for the 2024 Kirkus Prize. Mary Ann lives in Seattle, where dozens of independent bookstores and two world-class library systems feed her lifelong books addiction.