Eric Himmel is editor-at-large at Abrams Books, where he served as editor-in-chief from 2002 to 2019. Over a forty-year publishing career, he has acquired and edited hundreds of books in the arts and sciences. He was a co-author of Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal (2017). The son of photographers Lillian Bassman and Paul Himmel, he lives in New York City.