Ed Caesar

Ed Caesar is an author and feature writer. As a journalist, he has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Outside, The Smithsonian Magazine, Esquire, The Sunday Times Magazine, British GQ and The Independent, and has reported from a wide range of countries including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kosovo, Russia, and Iran. He was once asked by Kevin Costner whether he was “anxious to die”.

Ed has written long stories, inter alia, about secretive Russian oligarchs, African civil wars, marathon tennis matches, British murder trials, wingsuit flying, and Tom Wolfe’s beautiful apartment. Some of these articles have won awards.

His first book, Two Hours, about the world’s greatest distance runners and their quest to run the fastest ever marathon, was published last year by Simon & Schuster in the U.S. and by Viking Press in the U.K., and has since been translated into many different languages. 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”. In 2016, Two Hours won a British Sports Book Award. Caesar is now working on his second book, The Moth and The Mountain, which concerns the life, loves, and trauma of the mystic adventurer Maurice Wilson.

He is represented by Karolina Sutton at the Curtis Brown agency in London, and by Sloan Harris at ICM in New York. He joins the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Met as a Visiting Fellow in 2017.