Adam Higginbotham is the author of Midnight in Chernobyl, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and one of the New York Times’ Ten Best Books of 2019.

His latest book, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space will be published by Avid Reader Press on May 14 2024.

Higginbotham was born in England in 1968. His narrative non-fiction and feature writing has appeared in magazines including  The New Yorker, Wired, Smithsonian and The New York Times Magazine. Midnight in Chernobyl is an international bestseller, and has been translated into 22 languages.

The former US correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph Magazine and editor-in-chief of The Face, he lives with his family in New York City.

For US publicity enquiries, please contact David Kass at Simon & Schuster:

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