About

Ellis Henican

Bestselling Storyteller

ELLIS HENICAN is a multi-New York Times bestselling author, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and a popular television-news commentator. A natural storyteller known for his warmth, humor and accessible touch, Ellis has entertained and informed audiences on a wide variety of print and digital platforms. A born-and-bred Southerner working in the media capital of New York, he knows how to make readers care.

Ellis’s specialty is teaming up with people of extraordinary achievement and helping them come alive on the page. Over the past fifteen years, he has co-authored nearly two dozen bestselling books for major national and international publishers, helping some of the world’s most fascinating people deliver their messages everywhere. His co-authors are highly recognizable figures from the worlds of politics, entertainment, sports and other fields of human endeavor.

Ellis loves diving into new worlds and telling stories that connect with broad audiences, delivered in the unique tone and point of view of those who have lived them. One of his true gifts is getting the voice right. His books don’t read like homework. They are revealing conversations with people we have always wanted to know.

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TV icon Tom Selleck. Family insider Fred Trump III. U.S. hostage negotiator Mickey Bergman. New Jersey governor Chris Christie (three books). Maryland governor Larry Hogan. New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton. New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly. Navy SEALs commander Rorke Denver. Troubled baseball pitcher Dwight Gooden. NASCAR champions Michael Waltrip and Kyle Petty. Double agent Naveed Jamali. Thai cave rescuers Richard Harris and Craig Challen. U.S. Army captain and service-dog advocate Luis Montalvan. Made-in-America furniture titan John Bassett III. Common-sense billionaire John Catsimatidis. They’ve all turned to Ellis to get their stories right. Their books have been loved by readers, praised by reviewers and lavished with strong sales. It isn’t that Ellis starts out as an expert in all these topics. It’s that his curiosity and openness propel him to become one, aided by the greatest experts in the world.

For more than two decades, Ellis wrote a three-day-a-week column in New York’s Newsday, sharing his unique take on the news and leading the paper to a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Union Square train wreck. He hosted a daily, afternoon-drive radio show on WOR/710 in New York and a weekend show for Bloomberg Radio. He spent 13 years as a contributor to the Fox News Channel and now appears frequently on CNN and other networks, where he is known for his lively analysis of politics and pop culture.

Ellis comes from a colorful New Orleans family of trial lawyers, politicians and late-night raconteurs. He is a graduate of Jesuit High School, Hampshire College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he won the top student prize, the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. He lives in a converted butter-and-egg loft in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood with his wife, attorney Stephanie Carvlin.

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Telling Stories Around the Kitchen Table

Ellis Henican Books