Merve Emre’s new book titled The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing is a gripping mix of history and opinion relevant to anyone who has ever ...

Chances are you’ve heard of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The popular questionnaire, which sorts people into four-letter personality categories such as ESTJ (Extraversion, Sensing, Thinking, ...

Merve Emre is the author of Paraliterary and The Personality Brokers, a history of Myers-Briggs and the birth of personality testing that comes out in September. Starting in the fall, she will be ...

The book was my PhD dissertation. Which means it took a total of about five years to get from dissertation prospectus to book. The driving force behind it was a desire to understand how literature, ...