Joshua Hammer author biography, plus links to books by Joshua Hammer.

Joshua Hammer

Joshua Hammer is the New York Times bestselling author of six books, including The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and The Mesopotamian Riddle. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, GQ, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Outside. He lives in Berlin.

This biography was last updated on 03/18/2025.

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