John Gartner is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University Medical School. His first book, The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (a little) Craziness and (a lot of) Success in America, was named by the New York Times Magazine as one of the most notable new ideas of 2005. He has published in the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, New York Post, Worth and Talk Magazines, as well as numerous scholarly journals