About

Ed Caesar

Writer

Ed Caesar is the author of The Moth and the Mountain, and a contributing staff writer at The New Yorker.

Before joining The New Yorker, Caesar wrote stories for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Outside, The Smithsonian Magazine, Esquire, The Sunday Times Magazine, British GQ and The Independent. He has reported from a wide range of countries, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kosovo, Russia, and Iran. He was once asked by Kevin Costner whether he was “anxious to die”.

Caesar has written long stories about secretive Russian oligarchs, transnational cocaine shipments, marathon tennis matches, British murder trials, wingsuit flying, civil wars, giant diamonds, superstar D.J.s, shipwrecks, hypercars, and Tom Wolfe’s elegant apartment.

Caesar is 46 years old, and lives in Manchester. His literary agent is Karolina Sutton at CAA.