Lost: Amelia Earhart's Three Mysterious Deaths and One Extraordinary Life

RACHEL HARTIGAN has written about everything from the genetics of persimmon trees to the long road to women's suffrage for National Geographic, where she worked as a writer, reporter, and editor from 2012 to 2024. A former editor of the Washington Post's Book World, she also covered education and culture for U.S. News & World Report. Her stories about the 2017 and 2019 National Geographic-funded expeditions to Nikumaroro Island each generated more than a million unique views.