Paul is also the author of two books, The Cult of Personality and Origins; the latter was named a New York Times Notable Book. Her next book, titled Thinking Outside the Brain, is to be published by Eamon Dolan Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. A graduate of Yale College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Paul has taught the Yale courses “Reading and Writing the Modern Essay” and “The Craft of Narrative Nonfiction,” and now advises first-year students in her role as Fellow and Associate Head of Davenport College.