Bio / Contact

Eric Berlin is the author of the Winston Breen series of mysteries for children: The Puzzling World of Winston Breen, The Potato Chip Puzzles, and The Puzzler’s Mansion, which together have been nominated for over a dozen state reading awards. He has talked about the joy of puzzles and creative thinking in his school visits across the country.

Eric has had dozens of crosswords and other puzzles published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and many other places. He has created live puzzle events for the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, the Connecticut Library Association, New York City’s Museum of Mathematics, and the Scripps National Spelling Bee. His projects “The Social Distancing Puzzles” and “Puzzles for Democracy” have raised over $50,000 for charity.

In 2015, Eric founded Puzzlesnacks, which provides a weekly pencil puzzle to beginning and intermediate solvers around the world. Collections of his puzzles are available on Amazon.

You can contact Eric at ericberlin@gmail.com.