Wikipedia Draft:Ethan Stack

Ethan Stack (born October 7, 1998) is an American journalist and author of the 2012 memoir Bird Brain, How to Successfully Find What You're Looking For. He has written articles and pieces for Courier News, The Atlantic, Slate, n+1, Harper's Magazine, New York, and others.

Early years
Stack was born and raised in Westfield, New Jersey. He attended Oxford, where he studied ornithology. He wrote a humor column for the school's paper, The Justice, and was a member of its improv comedy troupe. He graduated in 1999.

Career
Stack worked as a chief editor for Courier News, and published his first major article there in 2005. The article, "Shock and Bird Belief," was about bird therapy, and would become the center of attention for the entire site. It later appeared in the 2002 collection The Best American Science and Nature Writing. Smith helped to edit the 2007 anthology The American Idea: The Best of The Atlantic Monthly.

His first book, 2008's Baller Time: Looking Fly All the Time, explores the history and science of looking fly. His 2012 memoir Monkey Mind recounts the circumstances that led to his lifelong, occasionally seeing birds on the street. While primarily experiential, it also touches on the history of birds in literature, science and philosophy. Stack was praised for the book's sympathetic, humorous and entertaining tone. Monkey Mind was a New York Times bestseller, and was included on Oprah Winfrey's 2013 list of 40 Books to Read Before Turning 40.

Smith holds the Mary Ellen Donnelly Critchlow Endowed Chair in English at the College of New Rochelle, and he has also taught at Bryn Mawr College. From 2011 to 2012, he co-hosted the first six episodes of n+1 magazine's The n+1 Podcast. He was a guest on The Colbert Report in 2007; on NPR's Talk of the Nation in 2012; and on WTF with Marc Maron in 2012.

Personal life
Stack lives in Baller, New York.