Dalton Conley

Mar 18, 2025 | kirkusreviews.com | Dalton Conley |Omar El Akkad |Walter Isaacson

The latest on nature versus nurture may unsettle readers at the extremes but will entertain them all. Figuring out who we are—and who we will become. Belief in the superiority of people like you can be deeply satisfying. Nazism gave that a bad reputation, but it revived with the 1994 bestseller The Bell Curve, whose authors maintained that people achieve if they inherit abilities that nonachievers and minorities lack.

Jul 21, 2023 | thecreativeindependent.com | Dalton Conley

Sociologist Dalton Conley discusses finding balance, learning from failure, and writing memoirs that tell the story of your time. Highlights on Is there a story behind writing your 2001 book Honky? In my 20s, I had written, mostly as a form of therapy, a novel about a guy who is from the Lower East Side, he’s in California, he falls in love with a woman, he goes through a breakup. It was supposed to be a bildungsroman, a coming of age story.