Adam Higginbotham

{{Short description|British journalist (born 1968)}}

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Adam Higginbotham (born 1968){{Cite web |title=About |url=http://adamhigginbotham.com/Archive/About.html |access-date=2023-09-20 |website=adamhigginbotham.com}} 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.{{cite web |title=Midnight in Chernobyl The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster By Adam Higginbotham |url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Midnight-in-Chernobyl/Adam-Higginbotham/9781501134630 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |access-date=8 June 2021}}{{cite web |last1=Higginbotham |first1=Adam |title=The Pirates’ Booty That Changed the Course of History |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/books/review/enemy-of-all-mankind-steven-johnson.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=8 June 2021}}

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.{{cite web |last1=Szalai |first1=Jennifer|author-link=Jennifer Szalai |title=An Enthralling and Terrifying History of the Nuclear Meltdown at Chernobyl |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/books/review-midnight-chernobyl-adam-higginbotham.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=8 June 2021}}{{cite web |last1=The Associated Press |title=Book on Chernobyl nuclear accident wins $5,000 prize |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/book-chernobyl-nuclear-accident-wins-5000-prize-70244915 |website=ABC News |access-date=8 June 2021}}

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.