Word hero jay heinrichs biography

Jay Heinrichs is the American author of Thank You for Arguing, a New York Times education bestseller.^[1]

Life and Career

Author

Jay Heinrichs is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion (Penguin Random House).^[1][2] Published in 14 languages and four editions,^[3] it ranks among the top 10 books assigned by faculty at Harvard^[4] and has been used in more than 3,000 college courses.^[5] He has also written two more books on rhetoric, Word Hero (which teaches the art of “witcraft”)^[6] and How to Argue with a Cat: A Human’s Guide to Persuasion.^[7]

Heinrichs is the founding partner of Gavia Books.^[8] Under that publishing imprint, he wrote (with former NASA head engineer Stephen Sandford) The Gravity Well: America’s Next Greatest Mission, an exploration of the outer spac