Gilbert M. Gaul twice won the Pulitzer Prize and has been short-listed for the Pulitzer four other times. For more than thirty-five years, he worked as an investigative journalist for The Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and other newspapers. He is the author of three previous books and lives in New Jersey. The Geography of Risk: Epic Storms, Rising Seas, and the Cost of America’s Coasts will be published by Sarah Crichton Books and Farrar, Straus and Giroux on September 3, 2019.