Joshua Hammer is a New York Times bestselling author of non-fiction books, including The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu, The Falcon Thief, and The Mesopotamian Riddle. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times Magazine, GQ, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Outside. A former foreign correspondent and bureau chief for Newsweek, Hammer won the National Magazine Award for his reporting on the Ebola crisis in West Africa.