About Evan I. Schwartz

Evan I. Schwartz tells stories about the human imagination. His book Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story is a biographical narrative about the origins of a cultural icon. Now out as an audiobook (HarperAudio, Fall 2024), WICKED author Gregory Maguire calls it “written with heart, brains, nerve—and a touch of magic.”

Evan is also the author of The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television (HarperCollins), named by Amazon Books as one of “100 Biographies & Memoirs to Read in a Lifetime.”

From 2020 to 2023, Evan served as storyteller and team member for Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis by John Doerr (Penguin/Portfolio, 2021). He produced and wrote the documentary Saved by the Sun which gauges the future of solar power and premiered on PBS/NOVA on Earth Day 2007.

A WGA member, Evan’s feature screenplays and pilots have placed in Final Draft’s Big Break, the Austin Film Festival, ScreenCraft, and the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards.

Evan’s first novel, REVOLVER, is a late 1970s coming-of-age drama about two teens with a premonition that the life of their ultimate hero is in danger (Concord Free Press, 2021).

Evan is a former editor at BusinessWeek and MIT Technology Review and a contributor at WIRED. His work has been selected for The Best American Science and Nature Writing.

From 2011-2019, he served as Director of Storytelling for Innosight. He launched Story-Is-Strategy Partners to help organizations discover and tell their most powerful stories.