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The Invisible Institute is a private group of published authors of serious nonfiction, convened by Annie Murphy Paul and Alissa Quart, that has been meeting monthly since 2003.

Harriet Washington is a medical ethicist and author of “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present,” which won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award.

Joshua Prager is a senior writer at the Wall Street Journal whose strange beat is revealing answers to historical secrets. One of those articles grew into the book “The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World.”

Pamela Paul is the author of, most recently, “Parenting, Inc.: How We Are Sold on $800 Strollers, Fetal Education, Baby Sign Language, Toddler Couture, and Diaper Wipe Warmers—and What It Means For Our Children,” as well as two previous books, “Pornified” and “The Starter Marriage.”

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