ROBERT KURSON earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin and a law degree from Harvard Law School. His award-winning stories have appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, and Esquire, where he was a contributing editor. He is the author of three New York Times bestsellers: Shadow Divers, the 2005 American Booksellers Association’s nonfiction Book Sense Book of the Year; Crashing Through, based on Kurson’s 2006 National Magazine Award–winning profile of the blind speed skier, CIA agent, inventor, and entrepreneur Mike May in Esquire; and Pirate Hunters. His latest book, Rocket Men, tells the story of the Apollo 8 mission to the Moon. He lives in Chicago.
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