James Clear

James Clear is an American writer, born in 1986 and raised in Hamilton, Ohio. He studied biomechanics at Denison University, where he captained the baseball team, and later earned an MBA at Ohio State University.

He began publishing articles about habits and self-improvement on his website in November 2012. Their popularity led to a publishing deal with Penguin Random House, and in 2018 he published Atomic Habits, a self-help book on building good habits and breaking bad ones through small, steady changes.