Stephen Witt

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Stephen Richard Witt [1] (born 1979) is an American journalist and non-fiction writer.

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Early life and education

Witt was born in 1979 in New Hampshire, and grew up in Minnesota. He has degrees from the University of Chicago (2001) and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (2011). [2]

Writing

His book The Thinking Machine, a history of Nvidia, [3] [4] won the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award for 2025. [5]

His other books include How Music Got Free , [6] which was shortlisted for the 2016 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, [7] the 2015 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, [8] and the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, [9]

He ghost-wrote Tim Berners-Lee's 2025 memoir This Is for Everyone. [10] According to the review aggregator Book Marks, the memoir received reviews from five critics, [11] with Naomi Alderman in The Observer calling it "a cool breath of air in an overheated room" which "contains some very sharp thinking about what we need to do now", [12] while The Times 's reviewer described it as "writing so bad it would shame ChatGPT" and said that "the worst sin of all is blind optimism". [13]

Witt was interviewed in April 2025 for the C-SPAN series After Words . [14]

Personal life

Witt lives in Los Angeles. [2] He is the elder brother of investigative journalist Emily Witt. [15]

References

  1. ↑ "Stephen Richard Witt". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved October 24, 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Bio". Stephen Witt. Retrieved October 26, 2025.
  3. ↑ Naughton, John (April 20, 2025). "The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World's Most Coveted microchip – review". The Guardian. Retrieved October 24, 2025.
  4. ↑ Tamny, John (June 1, 2025). "Book Review: Stephen Witt's Take On Nvidia, 'The Thinking Machine'". Forbes. Retrieved October 24, 2025.
  5. ↑ Hill, Andrew (December 4, 2025). "Stephen Witt wins FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year". Financial Times. Retrieved December 4, 2025.
  6. ↑ Poole, Steven (June 18, 2015). "How Music Got Free by Stephen Witt review – gleeful gonzo tour of an industry's reckoning". The Guardian. Retrieved October 24, 2025.
  7. ↑ "Announcing the 2016 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Shortlist". Nieman Foundation. February 22, 2016. Retrieved October 24, 2025.
  8. ↑ Shaffi, Sarah (September 22, 2015). "Business Book of the Year 2015 shortlist revealed". The Bookseller. Retrieved October 24, 2025.
  9. ↑ "2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest Winner and Nominees". Awards Archive. March 25, 2020. Archived from the original on March 9, 2022. Retrieved October 24, 2025.
  10. ↑ Duerden, Nick (September 12, 2025). "The inventor of the web remains convinced he made the world a better place". The i Paper. Retrieved October 24, 2025.
  11. ↑ "Book Marks reviews of This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee". Book Marks. Retrieved October 24, 2025.
  12. ↑ Alderman, Naomi. "Nick Clegg and Tim Berners-Lee: the battle for the soul of the internet". The Observer. Retrieved December 5, 2025.
  13. ↑ Arlidge, John (September 24, 2025). "Don't panic, it'll all be fine — Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the internet". www.thetimes.com. Retrieved December 5, 2025.
  14. ↑ "After Words with Stephen Witt". C-SPAN.org. Retrieved October 24, 2025.
  15. ↑ Hoey, Tadhg (October 16, 2024). "Emily Witt Can't Make It Make Sense". The Millions . Retrieved December 4, 2025.
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