Ed Caesar

Ed Caesar is a British journalist and author, a contributing staff writer at The New Yorker. Before joining that magazine he wrote long-form features for publications including The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Outside, Esquire, British GQ, The Sunday Times Magazine and The Independent, reporting from places such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kosovo, Russia and Iran, and he has won a string of journalism awards. His first book, Two Hours, about the pursuit of a sub-two-hour marathon, won a British Sports Book Award. The Moth and the Mountain (2020), on the Everest dreamer Maurice Wilson, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award. He lives in Manchester.

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