David Owen (author)

Education

Journalism

Personal life

Works

• High School: Undercover with the Class of '80
• None of the Above: Behind the Myth of Scholastic Aptitude
• The Man Who Invented Saturday Morning: And Other Adventures in American Enterprise
• The Walls Around Us: The Thinking Person's Guide to How a House Works
• My Usual Game; Adventures in Golf
• Lure of the Links: Great Golf Stories, an Anthology
• Around the House: Reflections on Life Under a Roof
• The Complete Office Golf
• The Making of the Masters: Clifford Roberts, Augusta National, and Golf's Most Prestigious Tournament
• The Chosen One: Tiger Woods and the Dilemma of Greatness
• Hit & Hope: How the Rest of Us Play Golf
• The First National Bank of Dad: The Best Way to Teach Kids About Money
• Copies in Seconds: How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown Company Created the Biggest Communication Breakthrough Since Gutenberg - Chester Carlson and the Birth of Xerox
• Sheetrock and Shellac: A Thinking Person's Guide to the Art and Science of Home Improvement
• Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability
• The Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make our Energy and Climate Problems Worse

• "Those Who Can't, Consult," Harper's, August 1982,
• "Where Toys Come From," The Atlantic Monthly, October 1986,
• "Travel: Innocents Abroad – Making Britain fun for a child can be fun for a parent, too,"" The Atlantic Monthly, November 1996
• "Notes & Comment: Children and Money – Training a little investor," The Atlantic Monthly, April 1998
• "Life and Letters: From Race to Chase – Yale’s Stephen L. Carter writes a thriller," The New Yorker, June 3, 2002
• "Books: Measure for Measure – How the metric system conquered the world-almost," The New Yorker, October 14, 2002
• "Mom and Pop Dept.: The Hundred Club," The New Yorker, December 23, 2002
• "NASA, Spinning: Was the space shuttle useful? Not really." Slate, posted February 4, 2003
• "Shouts & Murmurs: Remake", The New Yorker, April 21, 2003
• "Dept. of Procurement: The Meat Doctor," The New Yorker, June 30, 2003
• "Shouts & Murmurs: A Naturalist’s Notes," The New Yorker, August 11, 2003
• "Shouts & Murmurs: 8 Simple Rules For Dating My Ex-Wife," The New Yorker, January 12, 2004
• "Hey Pal Dept.: Old Hack," The New Yorker, January 26, 2004
• "Our Local Correspondents: Green Manhattan," The New Yorker, October 18, 2004
• "Shouts & Murmurs: Your Three Wishes – F.A.Q.," The New Yorker, January 16, 2006
• "Pencils Up! The S.A.T.’s Watchdog," The New Yorker, April 3, 2006
• "Annals of Culture: The Soundtrack of Your Life – Muzak in the realm of retail theatre," The New Yorker, April 10, 2006
• "Precocity Dept.: Bird," The New Yorker, July 24, 2006
• "Shouts & Murmurs: The Afterlife – Cutting Back," The New Yorker, January 7, 2008
• "Talk of the Town: Here to There Dept.: Wheeling" The New Yorker, December 1, 2008
• "The Talk of the Town: Here to There Dept.: Tornado Man" The New Yorker, November 1, 2010
• "Annals of Health: Hands across America: The Rise of Purell" The New Yorker, March 4, 2013
• "Annals of Disaster: Notes from Underground: Florida's sinkhole peril The New Yorker, March 18, 2013
• "The Yips," The New Yorker'', May 26, 2014