Nathan Hill is an American fiction writer and journalist, born in 1975, whose novels are contemporary literary fiction. His novel The Nix follows a man pulled back into the life of a mother who left him long ago, and it won the 2016 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction from the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Wellness was chosen by Oprah Winfrey for Oprah's Book Club 2.0 in September 2023.