David Wallace-Wells

David Wallace-Wells

Editor-at-large at New York magazine and author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

David Wallace-Wells is an editor-at-large at New York magazine, where he writes a column on climate change, and where his 2017 viral cover story “The Uninhabitable Earth” was met with widespread acclaim, paving the way for his 2019 international bestselling book, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming. The book was named to the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2019, GQ’s Best Books of 2019, the New Yorker’s Favorite Books of 2019, and was chosen as one of TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2019.

Mr. Wallace-Wells also writes for The Guardian. Formerly, Mr. Wallace-Wells was the deputy editor of The Paris Review, and a National Fellow at New America. He attended the University of Chicago, and graduated from Brown University in 2004 with a degree in history.