Ann Napolitano is an American author and editor. She is the author of the novels "Within Arm's Reach" and "A Good Hard Look," as well as the editor of the anthology "Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution." Napolitano has been a contributing editor at The New York Times Magazine and a senior editor at The New Republic. She has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. Napolitano is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and holds an MFA from the University of Michigan. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.