Mary Pilon
Mary Pilon is the New York Times bestselling author of The Monopolists and The Kevin Show. She cowrote and cohosted the audiobook, Twisted: The Story of Larry Nassar and the Women Who Took Him Down, and coedited Losers: Dispatches from the Other Side of the Scoreboard. She previously covered sports at The New York Times and business at The Wall Street Journal, and worked as a producer with the NBC Sports Emmy–nominated team at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Her work regularly appears in The New Yorker, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New York Times, Vice, and on NBC, among other outlets.
How Monopoly Helped Win World War II
In her book The Monopolists, Mary Pilon explores the secret origins of the game Monopoly, which begin with Lizzie Magie, a forgotten feminist who patented her Landlord's Game in 1904—not, as many think, a man during the Great Depression....