Jeff Goodell’s latest book is The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet. He is the author of six previous books, including The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World, which was a New York Times Critics Top Book of 2017. He has covered climate change for more than two decades at Rolling Stone and discussed climate and energy issues on NPR, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, ABC, NBC, Fox News and The Oprah Winfrey Show. He is a Senior Fellow at the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center and a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow. The Cyberthief and the Samurai: The True Story of Kevin Mitnick-And the Man Who Hunted Him
Books in order of publication:
Down (1996)
Sunnyvale: The Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family (2000)
Our Story: 77 Hours That Tested Our Friendship and Our Faith (2002)
Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future (2006)
How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate (2010)
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World (2017)
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet (2023)
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