About Evan I. Schwartz
Evan I. Schwartz tells stories about the human imagination. His book Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story (Houghton Mifflin, 2009) is a biographical narrative about the origins of a cultural icon and is “written with heart, brains, nerve—and a touch of magic,” says Gregory Maguire (Wicked).
He’s the author of The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television (HarperCollins, 2002), named by Amazon Books as one of “100 Biographies & Memoirs to Read in a Lifetime.”
From 2020 to 2023, Evan served as storyteller and team member for Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now by John Doerr (Penguin/Portfolio, 2021). He produced and wrote the documentary Saved by the Sun which gauges the future of solar power and premiered on PBS/NOVA on Earth Day 2007.
His docs have also appeared on Netflix & Showtime. His screenplays won a Sloan/Tribeca Film Grant and a Hamptons Film Festival Fellowship. His limited series pilot OTOPIA placed as a semi-finalist in Final Draft’s Big Break competition, and his “cli-fi” rom-com SEA CHANGERS is a Second Rounder in the 2023 Austin Film Fest Script Competition.
Evan’s first novel, REVOLVER, is a late 1970s coming-of-age drama about two teens with a premonition that the life of their ultimate hero is in danger (Concord Free Press, 2021).
Evan is a former editor at BusinessWeek and MIT Technology Review and a contributor at WIRED. His work has been featured in Best American Science and Nature Writing.
From 2011-2019, he served as Director of Storytelling for Innosight. He launched Story-Is-Strategy Partners to help organizations discover and tell their most powerful stories.
In 2022, Evan moved from Boston to Los Angeles to write and develop projects for film and television.