Nicholas Schmidle

Nicholas Schmidle has written for The New Yorker since 2011. His first article for the magazine, “Getting Bin Laden,” was a National Magazine Award finalist. Since then, he has written about a Russian arms trafficker, an antiquarian book forger, a wrongful conviction in Chicago, the former national-security adviser Michael Flynn, and many other subjects. In 2017, he was a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. Schmidle is the author of “To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan” and “Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut.”