Donovan Webster studied English at Kenyon College and writing at Middlebury College. He is a former senior editor for Outside magazine, and is a frequent contributor for such publications as National Geographic, Smithsonian, , the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and Men’s Journal. His first book, Aftermath: The Remnants of War, was awarded the prestigious Lionel Gelber Prize in 1997. He is currently at work on his next book, The Burma Road,, a history of World War Two’s China-Burma-India theater of operations. He is a founding member of the Chicago-based Physicians Against Land Mines/Center for International Rehabilitation, which—among other places around the world —now has a mine-survivors field hospital and prosthetics program in the former Yugoslavia. He lives with his wife and children in central Virginia.