Adam Higginbotham is the author of Midnight in Chernobyl, winner of the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and the Colby Award for Military and Intelligence History; the book 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, published in May 2024, is a New York Times bestseller, winner of the 2024 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, and a finalist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.

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.

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.