David Osborne is the author or co-author of five nonfiction books: Laboratories of Democracy, Reinventing Government, Banishing Bureaucracy, The Reinventor’s Fieldbook, and The Price of Government. In February 2017 he published his first historical novel, The Coming. He has written for the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, Mother Jones, Education Week, and many others. Osborne is currently a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, directing the Reinventing America’s Schools Project.