Ed Caesar is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine, and the author of Two Hours (2015) and The Moth and the Mountain (2020). Among other accolades, The Moth and the Mountain was a finalist for the Costa Biography of the Year, and was named a Times Book of the Year. In February 2027, Caesar will publish The Comet, the story of an extraordinary group of young people who rescued Allied airmen shot down over occupied Europe in World War II.