Robert Kurson earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin, then a law degree from Harvard Law School. His award-winning stories have appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, and Esquire, where he is a contributing editor. He is the author of the 2005 American Booksellers Association's nonfiction Book Sense Book of the Year Shadow Divers, and Crashing Through, based on Kurson's 2006 National Magazine Award-winning profile in Esquire. He lives in Chicago.
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