Jessica Bruder

Bruder has written for The New York Times since 2003.[3] She also writes for WIRED,[4] New York Magazine[5] and Harper's Magazine.[6] Her first book was Burning Book: A Visual History of Burning Man. She also produced the film CamperForce,[7] which was directed by Brett Story and executive produced by Laura Poitras for Field of Vision.

For her book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century,[8] she spent months living in a camper van named Halen, documenting itinerant Americans who gave up traditional housing to hit the road full-time.[9] The project spanned three years and more than 15,000 miles of driving, from coast to coast and from Mexico to the Canadian border.[10] Named a New York Times 2017 Notable Book,[11] Nomadland won the 2017 Barnes & Noble Discover Award[12] and was a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize[13] and the Helen Bernstein Book Award.[14]

In February 2019, Fox Searchlight Pictures announced that her book, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, had been optioned by Frances McDormand and Peter Spears for a film, also called Nomadland. David Strathairn, Linda May and Charlene Swankie joined McDormand in the cast of the film, with Chloé Zhao directing from a screenplay she wrote based on the book. Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey and Zhao were announced as producers of the film, which Fox Searchlight Pictures planned to distribute[15]