Evan I. Schwartz tells stories about the human imagination. His work has appeared in WIRED, Discover, MIT Technology Review and has been selected for The Best American Science & Nature Writing. He lives in Santa Monica by the ocean; his drives up and down the California coast inspired SAVED BY THE SEA, his debut feature screenplay, about an aquatic climate solution.

His book Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story (Houghton Mifflin, 2009) is a biographical narrative about the origins of a cultural icon.

He is also the author of The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television (HarperCollins, 2002), named by Amazon Books as one of “100 Biographies & Memoirs to Read in a Lifetime.”

Since 2020, Evan has served as storyteller and team member for Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now by John Doerr (Penguin/Portfolio, 2021). He produced and wrote the documentary Saved by the Sun which gauges the future of solar power and premiered on PBS/NOVA on Earth Day 2007.

His docs have also appeared on Netflix & Showtime. His screenplays won a Sloan/Tribeca Film Grant and a Hamptons Film Festival Fellowship. His limited series pilot OTOPIA has placed in Final Draft's Big Break and the Unique Voices competition.