New Orleans-based writer Wayne Curtis is a contributing editor at
Garden & Gun, Imbibe, and
The Daily Beast, and a former contributing editor to
The Atlantic magazine. He's also written for
American Scholar, Yankee, Smithsonian, Saveur, the New York Times, Architect, Wall Street Journal, Sunset, enRoute, and
American Archeology. His newest book is
The Last Great Walk, an account of a remarkable 4,000-mile journey taken in 1909, and why it’s relevant today. His previous book was a cultural history of a loathsome intoxicant:
And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in 10 Cocktails.