Nate DiMeo

For more than fifteen years, some of the best writing about history and memory has been found regularly on Nate DiMeo's pioneering podcast, The Memory Palace. He mine's the past for people and events that let him explore human nature through stories of resilience, ingenuity, struggle, and often comic absurdity of lives caught in the currents of their historical moments. His stories help listeners and readers see the extraordinary in the ordinary, finding wonder, and beauty and meaning in the lives of people often ignored by the history books and new ways of understanding familiar figures. In addition to the forthcoming collection of Memory Palace stories, new and beloved, coming in November of 2024 from Random House, his stories have been collected in translation in the book, O Palacio da Memoria, from the Brazilian publisher, Todavia. With The Memory Palace, he's performed live across the U.S., Canada, as well as London, Dublin, and a rock festival in a field in Tasmania. He's been the Artist in Residence at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He's been a finalist for a Peabody Award for The Memory Palace, and for a Thurber Prize for American Humor for co-authoring, Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America, while pretending to be the television character, Leslie Knope, from Parks and Recreation. He's written for television and has written a movie that sits on a shelf at a major motion picture company and will never, ever be made. He lives in Los Angeles via Providence, Rhode Island.