David Grann

David Grann has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2003. He is the author of "The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon," and his stories have appeared in several anthologies, including "What We Saw: The Events of September 11, 2001"; "The Best American Crime Writing," of 2004, 2005, and 2009; and "The Best American Sports Writing," of 2003 and 2006. A 2005 finalist for the Michael Kelly Award for the "fearless pursuit and expression of truth," Grann has also written for the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and the Wall Street Journal.

Before joining The New Yorker, Grann was a senior editor at The New Republic and, from 1995 to 1996, the executive editor of the newspaper The Hill. He holds master's degrees in international relations from Tuft University's Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy and in creative writing from Boston University. After graduating from Connecticut College, in 1989, he received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship and did research in Mexico, where he began his career in journalism. He lives in New York with his wife and two children.