Dan Bortolotti is the author of five previous books, including Hope in Hell, a portrait of Doctors Without Borders and the Nobel-winning humanitarian aid group. He has twice been nominated for the Science in Society Book Award, given by the Canadian Science Writers’ Association. His journalism has appeared in more than two dozen publications in North America, including Maclean’s, Saturday Night, and the National Post newspaper. Bortolotti lives with his family in Aurora, Ontario, just north of Toronto.