Ann Hulbert (1956-) is literary editor at Atlantic Magazine. She also served as contributing editor at Slate, where she was literary editor. As Slate’s Sandbox columnist, she focused on child-rearing and education-related issues. She was also a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, regularly producing “The Way We Live Now” columns. She wrote a cover piece about child prodigies and another about Chinese educational reform.
She began her career at The New Republic, where as a senior editor she assigned and edited reviews and essays in the “back of the book” and wrote regularly for both the literary and political sections of the magazine for sixteen years. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, The American Scholar, the TLS, as well as other newspapers and magazines.
Hulbert is the author of Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children and before that, The Interior Castle: The Art and Life of Jean Stafford.
Hulbert is married to Stephen Sestanovich (a foreign affairs researcher), July 17, 1982; they have two children: Benjamin and Clare Suzanne. She was educated at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, B.A., 1977; graduate study at Cambridge University, England.
