Jason Roberts

Jason Roberts was the child of two actors, growing up in a countercultural family that traveled often, spending time in both California and Hawaii. After attending the University of California, Santa Cruz, he moved to Silicon Valley and took an engineering job at Apple. For about a decade, Roberts worked in technology and in freelance writing about technology, founding a company in the early days of the internet that focused on instructional guides for common activities and skills. After selling the company, he began to focus more on writing, publishing A Sense of the World in 2006, a biography of the blind explorer James Holman. He published his next book, Every Living Thing, in 2024, and it went on to receive the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Roberts lives in Oakland, California, with his partner, journalist Julia Scott.