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Sam Quinones
Sam Quinones is a journalist, storyteller, former LA Times reporter, and author of three acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction, including New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic. “The most original writer on Mexico and the border” (San Francisco Chronicle), he lives with his family in Southern California.