Nicholas Schmidle, 2014 Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow, writes for the New Yorker and is the author of Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut (2021) and To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan (2009). His work has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, Slate, the Washington Post, and many others. Schmidle has been a National Magazine Award finalist, a two-time Livingston Award finalist, and winner of a Kurt Schork Award. He is a former fellow at the Institute of Current World Affairs, New America, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a former resident at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center. In 2017, Schmidle was a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. He currently lives in London with his family.
