Adam Higginbotham

Adam Higginbotham is a British journalist who has written for The New Yorker, Wired and The New York Times, and once served as U.S. correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph Magazine. He is best known for Midnight in Chernobyl, a 2019 account of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that received the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Non-Fiction. In 2024 he followed it with Challenger, about the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.