Carl Hoffman is the author of Liar's Circus: A Strange and Terrifying Journey Into the Upside-Down World of Trump's MAGA Rallies, as well as The New York Times bestseller Savage Harvest, hailed as a “masterpiece” by Outside and named a New York Times editors’ choice and one of the Washington Post’s 50 notable works of nonfiction for 2014, and The Lunatic Express. He is a former contributing editor to National Geographic Traveler and Wired, and has traveled on assignment to eighty countries.