About Evan I. Schwartz

Evan I. Schwartz is an author, screenwriter, and editor who tells stories about the human imagination.

Evan is the author of six books including two acclaimed historical narratives, Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story (Mariner Books) as well as The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television (HarperCollins).

Currently a contributor at Smithsonian Magazine, Evan has also written for WIRED, Harvard Business Review, MIT Technology Review, and BusinessWeek. His journalism has been selected for a National Magazine Award and The Best American Science and Nature Writing.

From 2020 to 2023, Evan served as storyteller and team member for Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis by John Doerr (Penguin/Portfolio). A member of the WGA for his documentary work, he produced and wrote Saved by the Sun, which gauges the future of solar power and premiered on PBS/NOVA on Earth Day 2007.

His feature screenplays and pilots have placed in Final Draft’s Big Break, the Austin Film Festival, ScreenCraft, and the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards.

From 2011-2019, Evan served as Director of Storytelling for Innosight. He launched Story-Is-Strategy Partners to help organizations discover and tell their most powerful stories.