The Vanishing Family: Love, Fate, and the Quest to End Dementia
nonfiction · First published 2026
Author guide
Robert Kolker Books in Order
Robert Kolker is an American journalist and nonfiction author and a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine. His books include Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family, and the forthcoming The Vanishing Family: Love, Fate, and the Quest to End Dementia. His magazine journalism has appeared in New York magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Atlantic, Wired, O, the Oprah Magazine, and other publications. He is a National Magazine Award finalist and a recipient of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Award for Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting.
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Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery
It is Kolker's first book and his acclaimed account of the Gilgo Beach murders.
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
It is his best-known book and a representative work of his narrative science and family reporting.
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Novels (3)
- Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery
nonfiction · 2013
Soon to be a Netflix documentary One of Slate’s Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 Years A literary account of the lives and presumed serial killings of five “Craigslist” prostitutes, whose bodies were found on the same Long Island…
- The Vanishing Family: Love, Fate, and the Quest to End Dementia
nonfiction · 2026