Richard Sturs­berg is the author of The Tow­er of Bab­ble (2012), named by The Globe and Mail (Canada’s nation­al news­pa­per) one of the best books of the year; and The Tan­gled Gar­den (2019), which was short­list­ed for Canada’s Don­ner Prize for the best book on pub­lic pol­i­cy. He is the Pres­i­dent of PEN Cana­da and Chair­man of Sephar­di Voic­es International.