Eric Weinberger taught writing at Harvard for eight years, until 2007, and has published dozens of book reviews, travel articles, and essays for leading U.S. and British newspapers and magazines, primarily the New York Times and the Boston Globe. His work has also appeared in literary journals including London Magazine, the Yale Review, Harvard Review, and Glimmer Train. He grew up in The Hague, and graduated with a degree in history from Yale in 1989.