# Professor Melissa Schilling's new book, "Quirky" is spotlighted

1 Faculty News February 16, 2018 ![The New Yorker logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032750.jpg?itok=hERliZMl)>

Excerpt from [The New Yorker](https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-quirky) -- "In 'Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World,' [Melissa Schilling](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/melissa-schilling) gathers eight titans of STEM—among them Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Nikola Tesla, and Benjamin Franklin—and finds that they share a handful of key traits."

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