Kieran Mulvaney is the author of At the Ends of the Earth: A History of the Polar Regions, The Whaling Season: An Inside Account of the Struggle to Stop Commercial Whaling, and The Great White Bear: A Natural and Unnatural History of the Polar Bear. A regular contributor to National Geographic, he has also written for The Guardian, The Washington Post Magazine, BBC Wildlife, New Scientist, E Magazine, and other publications. Born in England, he spent several years living in a cabin in Alaska and visits the Arctic and subarctic regularly. He now lives in rural Vermont.