Adam Van Dorenis an award-winning author, artist, and filmmaker. He studied at Columbia University and teaches at Yale University, where he is an Associate Fellow. He has been a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome and his work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Wadsworth Atheneum, among others. In addition to Top Hat and Tales: Harold Ross and the Making of the New Yorker, Van Doren also directed James Thurber: The Life and Hard Times, which was narrated by George Plimpton and was broadcast on national PBS. It received a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. VanDoren’s other films include Mark Van Doren: Portrait of a Poet, which is a profile of his grandfather, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and critic. As an author, Van Doren has published An Artist in Venice, The Stones of Yale, The House Tells the Story: Homes of the American Presidents (with an introduction by David McCullough), and the recent In the Founder’s Footsteps: Landmarks of the American Revolution which received the 2022 Distinguished Book Award from the Society of Colonial Wars. Van Doren lives in Cornwall, CT, and New York City.