About Adam Higginbotham
Born 1968. Adam Higginbotham is a British journalist and non-fiction writer.
Adam Higginbotham (born 1968) is a British journalist who is the former U.S. correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph Magazine and former editor-in-chief of The Face. He has also served as a contributing writer for The New Yorker, Wired, and The New York Times.
Higginbotham is the author of Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster, published in 2019 by Simon & Schuster, which received the 2020 William E. Colby Award for Military and Intelligence Writing, the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction, and was selected one of the 10 Best Books of 2019 by The New York Times.
In 2024, Higginbotham released Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space , about the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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Who is Adam Higginbotham?
Author and journalist in New York City
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Adam Higginbotham was born in 1968 in Somerset.
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Adam Higginbotham is a journalist and non-fiction writer.
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Adam Higginbotham is British.
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