Edward Dolnick is an American author and journalist. He is best known for his books on science and history, including The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World and Madness on the Couch: Blaming the Victim in the Heyday of Psychoanalysis. He has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and other publications. He has also taught writing at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. Dolnick is a graduate of Harvard College and holds a master's degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania. He currently lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two children.