Jeff Ryan is the author of the #1 bestseller SUPER MARIO: HOW NINTENDO CONQUERED AMERICA, A MOUSE DIVIDED: HOW UB IWERKS BECAME FORGOTTEN AND HOW WALT DISNEY BECAME UNCLE WALT, FATHER AND SON ISSUES: THE SECRET HISTORY OF SPIDER-MAN, and YOUR WORSHIPFULNESS, CARRIE FISHER: STARRING PRINCESS LEIA. He got his start reviewing video games for a defunct dotcom website, then started chronicling the lives of the world's greatest fictional characters, and their creators. He lives with his family in Bloomfield, NJ.

Trivia: Jeff has 

--found a mistake in a dictionary when he was ten
--been told by Neil DeGrasse Tyson to stop Vogue-ing
--learned the secret of Porky Pig's stutter
--beaten the world's greatest video game player (at Cranium, but still)
--written horror stories for NPR's All Things Considered
--once cleaned up a cheesequake
--received a Post-It Note from the inventor of Post-It Notes
--Went to the New York Public Library just to read an out-of-print (and terrible!) book on video game history

You may know him from...

• Forbes's Booked interview series
  Helping to introduce Koji Kondo's theme to Super Mario Bros. into the Library of Congress

• The Nintendo documentary Playing With Power, now on Amazon Prime!

• Multiple episodes of The History Channel's The Toys That Built America

• Appearnces on NPR shows (Marketplace, All Things Considered, Morning Edition)

• Time Magazine's special Super Mario issue
  
  
  If you want to book me as a speaker, or reach out for any other reason, I'm at jeffryan1@gmail.com. (And if you want to hear more from me, join my newsletter!)