Brian Christian (born 1984 in Wilmington, Delaware) is an American non-fiction author and poet, best known for the two bestselling books The Most Human Human (2011) and Algorithms to Live By (2016).Christian competed as a "confederate" in the 2009 Loebner Prize competition, attempting to seem "more human" than the humans taking the test, and succeeded. He was interviewed by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show on March 8, 2011. Reading The Most Human Human inspired the playwright Jordan Harrison to write the play Marjorie Prime, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and was released as a feature film in 2017. In 2010, Christian collaborated with film director Michael Langan on a short film adaptation of Christian's poem "Heliotropes," which was published in the final issue of Wholphin magazine. Christian attended high school at the prestigious High Technology High School in Lincroft, NJ. Christian holds a degree from Brown University in computer science and philosophy, and an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington. He is also an alumnus of High Technology High School class of 2002. He is a native of Little Silver, New Jersey. Beginning in 2012, Christian has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. His awards and honors include publication in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and fellowships at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony. In 2016 Christian was named a Laureate of the San Francisco Public Library.