Lyric W. Winik

Senior Writer and Editor 

An award-winning writer and author, Lyric Winik has been called “the go-to scribe for political memoirs” by long-time New York Times reporter Marian Burros after collaborating on major, best-selling books. The Washington Post has called her “a gifted crafter of sentences.” 

The Reilly Group is extremely fortunate to have her on the team bringing her multi-faceted writing and editing talents to create captivating policy reports and articles, issue and cause-related Op-Eds and speeches, and Capitol Hill testimony on behalf of clients and organizations.

Lyric has worked with former First Lady Laura Bush on her memoir, Spoken From the Heart, a number one bestseller and one of the top-selling books of 2010, which spent over six months on the New York Times’ bestseller list and received glowing literary reviews in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times, as well as many other publications. 

First Lady Michelle Obama selected Lyric to be her collaborator on her eagerly anticipated book, American Grown, focusing on the White House Kitchen Garden and healthy eating, which debuted at number one on the New York Times Bestseller list.  

She has collaborated on more than fourteen books, including the groundbreaking, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening, and her latest 2021 release, How To Be Human: An Autistic Man’s Guide to Life, heralded by Walter Isaacson as “A beautiful and astonishing book,” and which reached number one in all books on Amazon within days of its release.