Nathaniel Rich is the author of Losing Earth: A Recent History, a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and a winner of awards from the Society of Environmental Journalists and the American Institute of Physics. He is also the author of the novels King Zeno, Odds Against Tomorrow, and The Mayor’s Tongue. He is a writer-at-large at The New York Times Magazine and a regular contributor to The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, and The New York Review of Books. Rich lives in New Orleans.