Merve Emre is a Turkish-American author, academic, and literary critic. She has established herself through nonfiction writing that examines American cultural and intellectual history. Emre is the author of Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America, published in 2017, which explores reading practices and literary culture in twentieth-century America. She followed this with The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing in 2018, a historical examination of personality testing and its cultural impact. Beyond her books, Emre has published essays and articles in prominent publications including The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine, contributing to broader conversations about literature, culture, and American history.