Abigail Shrier

Abigail Shrier is a senior fellow at Manhattan Institute and a columnist at The Free Press. Ms. Shrier is the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up  (2024) and the national bestseller Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters (2020), which was named a “Best Book” by the Economist and the Times of London. Her works have been translated into 25 languages.

In 2025, Ms. Shrier received the Samizdat Prize for courageously resisting censorship and in 2021, the Barbara Olson Award for Excellence and Independence in Journalism.

Ms. Shrier holds an AB from Columbia College, where she received the Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship; a BPhil from the University of Oxford; and a JD from Yale Law School.