Algorithms to Live by: The Computer Science of Human Decisions About the Author Brian Christian is the author of The Most Human Human, a Wall Street Journal bestseller, New York Times editors' choice, and a New Yorker favorite book of the year. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and The Paris Review, as well as in scientific journals such as Cognitive Science, and has been translated into eleven languages. He lives in San Francisco.