Sophy Burnham is the author of 16 books--including three New York Times (and many other) bestsellers. Her works have been translated into 26 languages. She has written nonfiction, novels, short stories, poetry, award winning plays, documentary films, and children's novels, radio plays, and hundreds of articles and essays, many syndicated around the world.

She is best known for writing on spiritual matters--angels, mysticism, prayer--and for spreading hope and trust. She has given workshops and talks at home and abroad and appeared on TV and radio shows world-wide, including Oprah, Larry King Live, Good Morning America.

Working closely with famed Broadway producer, Roger Stevens, she served in the 1990s as Executive Director of the John F. Kennedy Fund for New American Plays, awarding money to theaters to produce new plays and to playwrights to write them. Her award-winning plays have been performed in Seattle, Washington, DC, New York, and elsewhere. She is working on a new play.

Her favorite award is "Daughter of Mark Twain," awarded for her first bestselling book, The Art Crowd.

She works as a psychic and medium, with clients around the world - Australia, Europe, Hong Kong, the USA.

Her 2019 New York Times article for "Modern Love", about love in your 80s garnered responses from both men and women, from the 20s to their 90s. It inspired a film produced by "Modern Love", India Mumbai. It was one of six stories chosen from the hundreds of thousands of New York Times "Modern Love" articles.