Adam Higginbotham is a renowned British journalist and author, known for his former role as the U.S. correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph Magazine and for his tenure as editor-in-chief of The Face. Throughout his career, Higginbotham has contributed to a number of prestigious publications, including The New Yorker, Wired, and The New York Times.

Higginbotham's literary acclaim is best exemplified by his work, Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster, published in 2019. This significant contribution to historical and investigative literature has earned him the 2020 William E. Colby Award for Military and Intelligence Writing, the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction, and a spot among the 10 Best Books of 2019 as selected by The New York Times.