Scott Borchert

Scott Borchert is the author of Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America, which won the New Deal Book Award and was called "brilliant" by the Boston Globe and was hailed for its "colorful characters, scenic byways and telling anecdotes" by Maureen Corrigan on NPR. A writer and an editor based in New Jersey, and a former assistant editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, he holds a master's degree in cultural reporting and criticism from the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, Air Mail and other publications.