Adam Higginbotham is a British-American writer born in England in 1968. His first book, Midnight in Chernobyl, was published in 2019. The winner of the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and the Colby Award for Military and Intelligence History, Midnight in Chernobyl was named one of the New York Times’ Ten Best Books of 2019, and became an international bestseller translated into 22 languages.

His second book, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space, was published in May 2024. A New York Times bestseller, Challenger won the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the 2024 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, and was a finalist the 2025 Carnegie Medal in Nonfiction.

Higginbotham’s work has appeared in newspapers and magazines including The New Yorker, Wired, Smithsonian and The New York Times Magazine.

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.