Sarah Thornton is a sociologist with “a reporter’s nose and a Double D brain.” She is the author of four critically acclaimed non-fiction books, including Tits Up, an exploration of the subcultures of breasts, deemed “required reading” and “a healing journey,” that ensures that “you will not look at breasts in the same way again.” For three years while researching this 2024 publication, Thornton was a scholar-in-residence at University of California, Berkeley. A lapsed academic, Thornton did her PhD on “hipness” and the cultural hierarchies within popular culture. Once the chief writer on art for The Economist, Thornton is also the author of Seven Days in the Art World, which has been translated into more than twenty languages, and 33 Artists in 3 Acts, which is available in eight. Thornton lives and works in San Francisco, CA.