Josh Young

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Josh Young, a bestselling author and journalist for the past quarter-century, specializes in cowriting books with notable leaders in their fields and celebrities. He has coauthored seven national bestsellers, including five New York Times bestsellers. He coauthored Deal or No Deal host Howie Mandel’s Here’s the Deal: Don’t Touch Me; Bob Newhart’s landmark comedic memoir, I Shouldn’t Be Doing This; actor/Fox TV commentator Wayne Rogers’ iconoclastic business book, Make Your Own Rules: A Renegade Guide to Unconventional Success; actor Jim Belushi’s Real Men Don’t Apologize; and comedian Jay Mohr’s Gasping for Air Time: Two Years In the Trenches of Saturday Night Live. He is also the coauthor with Dr. Sam Parnia of the New York Times bestseller Erasing Death: The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death; and of The Link: Uncovering Our Oldest Ancestor with Colin Tudge, Young has written for numerous publications, including for two years at the New York Times, a year for Esquire as a contributing writer, for three years at Life magazine, for five years at Entertainment Weekly as a contributing writer, and for four years at John Kennedy’s George as a contributing editor. Young has appeared on several national television shows, including: The Today Show, ABC’s World News Tonight, The O’Reilly Factor, Entertainment Tonight, PBS, MSNBC’s Morning Joe, and Rivera Live.