David W. Brown is a freelance writer whose nonfiction appears frequently in
The New York Times,
The Atlantic,
Scientific American, and
Smithsonian. His other publishers include
The New Yorker,
Vox, and
Foreign Policy. He is an Antarctic expeditioner, an endurance runner, a former Army paratrooper, and a veteran of Afghanistan. He is a graduate of Louisiana State University and holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Arkansas at Monticello.
The Mission is his fourth book. Brown lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.