People like Rosecrans Baldwin

Rosecrans Baldwin is an American novelist and essayist. He is also a co-founder and editor of The Morning News, an online magazine. Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Darien, Connecticut, Baldwin now lives in the Los Angeles, California area with his wife.

Baldwin's most recent book, “Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles,” (Macmillan Publishers, June 2021) was named a Los Angeles Times bestseller. The New York Times Book Review noted Baldwin “may have written the perfect book about Los Angeles.”

Baldwin is the author of a memoir Paris, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2012) based on the year and half he and his wife spent living in Paris while he worked in an unnamed advertising agency. It was named one of the Top 10 Travel Books of Spring 2012 by Publishers Weekly and has earned positive reviews citing its humor and charm.