Evan Mandery

Mandery graduated from Harvard College in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Studies.{{cite news |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1989/6/8/all-politics-is-personal-pif-there/ |title=All Politics Is Personal |newspaper=The Harvard Crimson |date=8 June 1989 |accessdate=20 April 2013}} Later he graduated from Harvard Law School as Juris Doctor in 1992.{{cite news |url=http://johnjay.jjay.cuny.edu/profiles/pdfs/Mandery_Evan.pdf |title=Curriculum Vitae of Evan Mandery |access-date=April 20, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150130222346/http://johnjay.jjay.cuny.edu/profiles/pdfs/Mandery_Evan.pdf |archive-date=January 30, 2015 |url-status=dead}} He is a professor and chairperson of the criminal justice department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Mandery lives in Manhasset, New York. His wife, Valli Rajah-Mandery, is a sociologist, and they have three children.{{cite news |url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/evan-mandery |title=Evan Mandery in FantasticFiction.co.uk}} He was influenced by the writings of Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams.{{cite news |url=http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/189763.Evan_Mandery |title=Evan Mandery in GoodReads.com}} Mandery is also an amateur poker player.{{Cite web |title=Evan Mandery's profile on The Hendon Mob |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=52154 |access-date=2023-12-24 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}

Mandery's first novel Dreaming of Gwen Stefani was published in 2007.{{cite news |url=http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/scene-evan-manderys-book-party_b3892 |title=Scene at Evan Mandery's Book Party |author=Ron Hogan |newspaper=GalleyCat |date=16 February 2007 |time=10:51am |accessdate=20 April 2013}} A review about the book was available on Booklist magazine.{{cite news |title=Dreaming of Gwen Stefani. |author=Wilkinson, Joanne |publisher=American Library Association |newspaper=Booklist |date=1 December 2006 |volume=103 |issue=7 |page=22}}{{cite news |url=http://www.igpub.com/dreaming.html |title=Dreaming of Gwen Stefani in IgPub.com |access-date=May 21, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100512074220/http://www.igpub.com/dreaming.html |archive-date=May 12, 2010 |url-status=dead}} The novel deals with a mathematical genius and hot-dog vendor, who falls in love with Gwen Stefani.

Mandery's second novel, First Contact, Or, It's Later Than You Think, was published by HarperCollins in January, 2010.{{cite news |url=http://www.harpercollins.com/books/First-Contact-Evan-Mandery/?isbn=9780061749773 |title=First Contact in HarperCollins.com}} It is a story of a hyper-intelligent alien species and a dim-witted President, who is mistrustful of the aliens without basis. The book was reviewed in Booklist, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and the Winnipeg Free Press.{{cite news |title=First Contact; or, It's Later Than You Think, Parrot Sketch Excluded |author=Hays, Carl |publisher=American Library Association |newspaper=Booklist |date=1 February 2010 |volume=106 |issue=11 |page=36}}{{cite magazine |title=First Contact |magazine=Publishers Weekly |date=16 November 2009 |volume=256 |issue=46 |page=34}}{{cite magazine |title=First Contact: Or, It's Later Than You Think |author=Burkhardt, Joanna M. |magazine=Library Journal |date=15 December 2009 |volume=134 |issue=20 |page=100}}{{cite news |url=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/fyi/hard-edged-unsettling-thriller-by-masterful-storyteller-86705942.html?story=PAPERBACKS:%20Hard-edged,%20unsettling%20thriller%20by%20masterful%20storyteller |title=PAPERBACKS: Hard-edged, unsettling thriller by masterful storyteller |author=David Pitt |newspaper=Winnipeg Free Press |date=3 June 2010 |page=3 |accessdate=20 April 2013}}

Q was published by HarperCollins in August, 2011.{{cite news |url=http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Q-Novel-Evan-Mandery/?isbn=9780062015839 |title=Q in HarperCollins.com}} It is a story based on time travel, where the unnamed protagonist is visited by his future self and advised not to marry the love of his life.{{cite news |url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/ab152c04-4d98-11e1-b96c-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2M12bKRif |title=A quirky mash-up |author=Adrian Turpin |newspaper=Financial Times |date=3 February 2012 |time=10:22 pm |accessdate=20 April 2013}} The novel was reviewed by The New York Times, the Financial Times, The Times Literary Supplement and Booklist magazine.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/books/new-novels-a-small-hotel-q-girls-in-white-dresses.html?_r=0 |title=Newly Released Books |author=Susannah Meadows |newspaper=The New York Times |date=17 August 2011 |accessdate=20 April 2013}}{{cite magazine |url=http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/reviews/other_categories/article1024923.ece |title=Various versions |author=Wendy Brandmark |publisher=News International |magazine=TLS |date=27 April 2012 |accessdate=21 April 2013}}{{cite news |title=Q: A (Timeless) Love Story |author=Turza, Stephanie |publisher=American Library Association |newspaper=Booklist |date=1 August 2011 |volume=107 |issue=22 |page=23}}

Q was published in the UK in July 2012 and thereafter translated into Italian (under the title Q una storia d'amore), Polish (as Q. Ponadczasowa historia miłosna), and Czech (as Má věčná Q).{{cite news |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qTeGZwEACAAJ&q=Q+Evan+Mandery |title=Q: A Love Story in Google Books|isbn=9780007447602|last1=Mandery|first1=Evan|date=February 2012}}{{cite news |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pKZYpwAACAAJ&q=Q+Evan+Mandery |title=Q una storia d'amore in Google Books|isbn=9788854505438|last1=Mandery|first1=Evan|year=2012}}{{cite news |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WiaNtgAACAAJ&q=Q+Evan+Mandery |title=Q Ponadczasowa historia milosna in Google Books|isbn=9788363248062|last1=Mandery|first1=Evan J.|year=2012}}{{cite news |url=http://www.bookfan.eu/clanek/Recenze/324/RECENZE-Ma-vecna-Q-Evan-Mandery |title=Ma Vecna Q in BookFan.eu |access-date=February 26, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130423024947/http://www.bookfan.eu/clanek/Recenze/324/RECENZE-Ma-vecna-Q-Evan-Mandery |archive-date=April 23, 2013 |url-status=dead}}

In November, 2011, Columbia Pictures optioned the movie rights to Q.{{cite news |url=http://www.dailyblam.com/news/2011/11/14/sony-buys-rights-to-adapt-evan-manderys-novel-q |title=Sony Buys Rights To Adapt Evan Mandery's Novel Q |author=Eric Whitman |newspaper=The Daily Blam |date=14 November 2011 |time=10:31pm |accessdate=20 April 2013}} David Gordon Green was hired to write the screenplay and direct.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/david-gordon-green-q-261228 |title=David Gordon Green to Direct Love Story 'Q' |author=Borys Kit |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |date=14 November 2011 |time=4:42pm PST |accessdate=20 April 2013}}

Artificial, also referred to as ArtificialNext, is the first ever scripted and interactive show distributed on twitch.tv.{{Cite web|url=https://www.artificialnext.com/|title=Artificialnext|website=artificialnext|language=en|access-date=2018-11-01|archive-date=August 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190823175401/https://www.artificialnext.com/|url-status=dead}} Created by Bernie Su and Evan Mandery, Artificial follows Dr. Matt Lin (Tohoru Masamune) and his artificial intelligence creation/daughter Sophie (Tiffany Chu). Dr. Lin socializes Sophie with the live and interactive Twitch audience in order to help her become human. Episodes are broken into recorded and live scenes. In the live scenes, the audience directly influences the story, and, through in-stream polls and comments, helps the characters make decisions. The first season ran weekly from August 12, 2018 through October 25, 2018 for a total of sixteen episodes and accrued more than two million views. The second season began on March 6, 2019, and will conclude on August 28.{{Cite web|url=https://www.twitch.tv/artificialnext|title=Twitch|website=Twitch|access-date=2019-03-13}}{{Cite web|url=https://screenrant.com/artificial-version-2-0-teaser-first-season-twitch-interactive-series/|title=Watch An Exclusive Teaser For Twitch's Artificial|date=2019-08-13|website=ScreenRant|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-14}} In 2019, the series was awarded the Peabody Futures of Media Award for Webisode. The series also received a Creative Arts Emmy Award in 2018 for Outstanding Innovation in Interactive Media. Artificial has a spinoff podcast, Artificial Uncovered, which is an in-universe transmedia video podcast that airs as two livestreams with one of the show's two hosts providing commentary and taking questions on a pre-recorded podcast with both hosts. The audio of the pre-recorded segments is also posted for download.{{Cite web|url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-innovation-or-destruction/id1454582534?i=1000430759672|title=Artificial Uncovered: AI: Innovation or Destruction? on Apple Podcasts|website=Apple Podcasts|language=en-us|access-date=2019-08-14}}

The Professional was published in 2020 by Classics of Golf.{{Cite web|title=The Professional|url=https://classicsofgolf.com/product/the-professional/|access-date=2020-12-30|website=Classics of Golf|language=en-US}} The Classics of Golf Library was founded and curated by Herbert Warren Wind.{{Cite web|title=About Us|url=https://classicsofgolf.com/about-us/|access-date=2020-12-30|website=Classics of Golf|language=en-US}} The novel tells the story of a journeyman professional golfer at different stages of his life.

Mandery began as a non-fiction writer and his first book The Campaign: Rudy Giuliani, Ruth Messinger, Al Sharpton and the Race to be Mayor of New York was published in 1999 by Westview Press.{{cite news |url=http://www.westviewpress.com/book.php?isbn=9780813398150 |title=Eyes on City Hall in WestViewPress.com}} His academic writing focuses on capital punishment, and he has published two books on the subject named Capital Punishment in America: A Balanced Examination and A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America.{{cite news |url=http://www.jblearning.com/catalog/9781449605988/ |title=Capital Punishment in America: A Balanced Examination in JBLearning.com}}{{cite news |url=http://books.wwnorton.com/books/A-Wild-Justice/ |title=A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America}} A Wild Justice was reviewed by The New York Times.{{cite news|last1=Oshinsky|first1=David|title=Stay of Execution|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/books/review/a-wild-justice-by-evan-j-mandery.html?pagewanted=all|accessdate=30 January 2015|agency=The New York Times|date=30 August 2013}}

Mandery is a critic of legacy preference and colleges admissions practices generally at Harvard and other elite private colleges. His op-eds have appeared in The New York Times,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/opinion/end-college-legacy-preferences.html|title=Opinion | End College Legacy Preferences|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 24, 2014|last1=Mandery|first1=Evan J.}} Huffington Post,{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-im-skipping-my-harvar_b_5246982|title=Why I'm Skipping My Harvard Reunion (A Call to Action)|date=May 6, 2014}} CNN,{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/22/opinions/why-im-boycotting-my-harvard-reunion-mandery/index.html|title=Why I'm boycotting my Harvard reunion|date=May 23, 2019}} The Harvard Crimson,{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/5/29/end-legacy-preference/|title = End Legacy Preference | Opinion | the Harvard Crimson}} and Daily News.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-in-college-admissions-the-real-scandal-is-whats-legal-20190312-story.html|title=In college admissions, the real scandal is what's legal}}

In 2022, Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us, was published by The New Press.{{Cite web |title=Poison Ivy |url=https://thenewpress.com/books/poison-ivy |access-date=2023-01-20 |website=The New Press |language=en}} In it, Mandery argues that elite colleges exacerbate social inequality.

• The campaign: Rudy Giuliani, Ruth Messenger, Al Sharpton, and the race to be mayor of New York City, 1999, {{ISBN|978-0813366982}}
• Eyes on City Hall: A Young Man's Education in New York Political Warfare, 2001, {{ISBN|978-0813398150}}
• Dreaming of Gwen Stefani, 2007, {{ISBN|978-0977197262}}
• First Contact: Or, It's Later Than You Think, 2010, {{ISBN|978-0061749773}}
• Capital Punishment: A Balanced Examination, 2011, {{ISBN|978-1449605988}}
• Q: A Novel, 2011, {{ISBN|978-0062098832}}
• A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America, 2013, {{ISBN|978-0393239584}}
• Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us, 2022, {{ISBN|9781620976951}}

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• [http://evanmandery.com Official Website]

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