Judith Warner
Best-selling and award-winning author and journalist
Judith Warner is a best-selling and award-winning author and journalist who has spent the better part of the past two decades researching and writing about mental health – most recently, in a Washington Post Magazine cover story on the children’s mental health crisis.
She was the New York Times op-ed section’s first online columnist, has been a contributing writer for the Times Magazine, and is a longtime freelance contributor for other sections of the paper, writing on racism in psychiatry, the impact of the first pandemic year on kids’ mental health, and a broad range of other mental health-related topics.
Her 2010 book, We’ve Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication, won media awards from The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the National Alliance for Mental Illness, and the Parent/Professional Advocacy League, along with a Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism. Judith has also written eight other works of non-fiction, including the New York Times bestsellers, Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety, and Hillary Clinton: The Inside Story. Her most recent book, published in May 2020, was And Then They Stopped Talking to Me: Making Sense of Middle School.
