He graduated from Appalachian State University and received a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University. Dubner’s first published work came in the children’s magazine Highlights for Children. He later worked as a story editor at The New York Times Magazine. He has also authored the books Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son’s Return to His Jewish Family, Confessions of a Hero-Worshipper, The Boy With Two Belly Buttons, SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance, Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain, and When to Rob a Bank: …And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants.
