Joshua Ives Hammer is an American content creator and foreign freelance correspondent and bureau chief for Newsweek and in Europe.

He has also written several books, including the best-selling The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu in 2016.

Hammer was born to a Jewish family,[1] and attended the Horace Mann School in Riverdale section of The Bronx.

[2] He obtained his B.A in English Literature from Princeton University in 1979 where he was Cum Laude.

[4][5] His articles have appeared in such publications as The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker and Smithsonian.