In 2016, Two Hours won a British Sports Book Award.Ĭaesar’s second book, The Moth and the Mountain, is about the war veteran, mystic, and adventurer Maurice Wilson, who attempted to climb Everest in 1934. The Spectator said the book was a kind of “Hoop Dreams for runners”, The Observer called it “a celebration of the human spirit”, and The New York Times described Caesar’s writing as “beautiful”. and by Viking Press in the U.K., and has since been translated into many different languages.
Some of these articles have won awards.Ĭaesar’s first book, Two Hours, about the world’s greatest distance runners and their quest to run the fastest ever marathon, was published in 2015 by Simon & Schuster in the U.S.
He was once asked by Kevin Costner whether he was “anxious to die”.Ĭaesar has written long stories, inter alia, about secretive Russian oligarchs, African civil wars, marathon tennis matches, British murder trials, wingsuit flying, shipwrecks, and Tom Wolfe’s beautiful apartment. Ed Caesar is the author of The Moth and the Mountain, and a contributing staff writer to The New Yorker.īefore joining The New Yorker, Caesar wrote stories for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Outside, The Smithsonian Magazine, Esquire, The Sunday Times Magazine, British GQ and The Independent. He has reported from a wide range of countries, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kosovo, Russia, and Iran.
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