Will Storr

Will Storr's books explore storytelling, self-image, belief, persuasion, conflict, and the psychological patterns through which people make sense of experience. The Science of Storytelling examines why character goals, change, and cause matter to narrative. A Story Is a Deal applies related questions to leadership and persuasion, asking what an audience gives in exchange for attention and meaning.

Selfie turns toward the pressures surrounding identity and self-obsession, while The Heretics considers people whose convictions place them against accepted accounts. The Hunger and the Howling of Killian Lone carries questions of desire and ambition into fiction. Storr's cluster repeatedly links story with belief: narratives can reveal motives, organize uncertainty, and also protect a person from evidence that threatens a preferred self.