Candice Millard

Candice Millard is an American writer and journalist and a former writer and editor for National Geographic. Her books include The River of Doubt, a history of Theodore Roosevelt's 1913 expedition into the Amazon rainforest, and Destiny of the Republic, about the life and assassination of President James A. Garfield. Hero of the Empire looks at Winston Churchill's activities during the Boer War, and River of the Gods follows the search for the source of the Nile.