Scott Higham is an American journalist and author who documented the corporate and political forces that fueled the opioid epidemic, in addition to conducting other major investigations.

He is the son of a New York City homicide detective stationed in the Fort Apache precinct in the South Bronx and an airline secretary and homemaker from Winthrop, Massachusetts.

[1] Higham joined The Washington Post in 2000[1] and has conducted numerous investigations for the news organization, including an examination of the D.C. foster care system, abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison and waste and fraud in Homeland Security[2][3][4] contracting.

The foster care series with Sari Horwitz and Sarah Cohen won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2002.

The non-fiction book chronicles the 2001 disappearance of Washington, DC intern Chandra Levy, whose remains were found one year later in an isolated area of the city's 2,800-acre (11 km2) Rock Creek Park.