About Evan I. Schwartz

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

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.

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), “written with heart, brains, nerve—and a touch of magic” says Gregory Maguire (WICKED), as well as The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television (HarperCollins), named by Amazon Books to its list of all-time top 100 biographies/memoirs.

From 2011-2019, Evan served as Director of Storytelling for Innosight. In 2020, he launched Story-Is-Strategy Partners to help organizations discover and tell their most powerful stories.

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.

Evan’s screenplays and pilots have placed in Final Draft’s Big Break, the Austin Film Festival, ScreenCraft, and have won science-in-cinema grants from the Sloan Foundation. Based in LA, he co-founded First Pitch Stories LLC to develop and finance feature films and episodic series.