Michael Scott Moore
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Michael Scott Moore is a journalist, novelist, author of a comic novel about L.A., Too Much of Nothing, as well as a travel book about surfing, Sweetness and Blood, which was named a best book of 2010 by The Economist.
Moore worked for several years as an editor and writer at Spiegel Online in Berlin. In early 2012, he was kidnapped during a reporting trip to Somalia (supported by the Pulitzer Center) and was held hostage by pirates for 32 months.
The Desert and the Sea, a memoir about that ordeal, became an international bestseller.
Moore has been a visiting professor at the Columbia School of the Arts, and he currently writes on immigration for Bloomberg Businessweek and The New York Review of Books. His work has also been published in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, New Lines Magazine, n+1, and many other media outlets.
