Charles Duhigg is an American journalist and author, best known for his books The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times and a senior editor at The Atlantic. Duhigg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and graduated from Harvard College in 1996. He began his career as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where he wrote about the airline industry and the technology sector. He then joined The New York Times in 2006, where he wrote about business and economics. In 2012, Duhigg published The Power of Habit, which became a New York Times bestseller and was named one of the best books of the year by Amazon, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. The book explores the science behind habit formation and how it can be used to improve our lives. In 2016, Duhigg published Smarter Faster Better, which examines the science of productivity and how to use it to become more successful. The book was a New York Times bestseller and was named one of the best books of the year by Amazon, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. Duhigg has also written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Wired. He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, including The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and NPR's Fresh Air. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and universities around the world.