Hammer, Joshua

Joshua Hammer was born in New York and graduated from Princeton University with a"cum laude"degree in English literature. He joined the staff of"Newsweek"as a business and media writer in 1988, and between 1992 and 2006 served as a bureau chief and correspondent-at-large on five continents.Hammer is now a contributing editor to"Smithsonian" and "Outside", a frequent contributor to the"New York Review of Books", and has written for publications including the"New Yorker", the"New York Times Magazine", "Vanity Fair", the"Conde Nast Traveler", the"Atlantic Monthly", and the Atavist. He is the auth...