Amy Wallace is a writer based in California. Her magazine work has appeared in GQ, Wired, The New Yorker, New York, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Details, The Nation, the New York Times Magazine, Elle, and other national publications. Two of her profiles – “Hollywood’s Information Man” (Los Angeles, 2001) and “Walking Time Bomb” (New York, 2019) – have been nominated for a National Magazine Award.

She has also collaborated on two books. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (Random House, 2014), with Ed Catmull, then the president of Pixar Animation and Disney Animation, was a New York Times bestseller. In 2021, Simon & Schuster published Wallace’s second collaborative book: Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company, by Jeff Immelt, the former CEO of General Electric.

Wallace has been a correspondent at GQ, an editor-at-large at Los Angeles magazine, and a monthly columnist on creativity and innovation (“Prototype”) for the New York Times Sunday Business section. She also served as a senior writer at Conde Nast Portfolio. She spent 11 years at the Los Angeles Times as a reporter covering state politics, higher education, and the entertainment industry. During that period, she shared in two staff-wide Pulitzer Prizes: in 1992, for coverage of the Los Angeles riots, and in 1994, for coverage of the Northridge earthquake. Later, she became the Times’ deputy business editor over entertainment and technology coverage.

Wallace began her career as an assistant to New York Times columnist James Reston. She then spent two years at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution covering prisons and death row; next she went to the Los Angeles Times.

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