Mary Pilon is the author of The Monopolists, a New York Times bestseller about the history of the board game Monopoly (Bloomsbury, February 2015) and The Kevin Show (Bloomsbury, March 2018). Her work, chiefly about sports, business, and politics, regularly appears in the New Yorker, Esquire, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Vice, New York, and The New York Times, among other publications. She also appears on a variety of TV and radio programs and worked as a producer for NBC Sports at the 2016 Rio Olympics.