Adam Higginbotham (born 1968 in Somerset)[1] 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.
[2][3] 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.
[4][5] In 2024 Higginbotham released Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (ISBN 978-1-98217-661-7), about the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.