Dan Morrison

Dan Morrison’s writing on science, culture and conflict has appeared in the New York Times, National Geographic and Artforum. He was at Newsday’s New York City edition for seven years covering the bombast of the Rudolph Giuliani era. He later moved to South Asia where his topics ranged from militancy in Pakistan and Afghanistan to the dying art of the hand-painted Bollywood movie poster. He reported from Egypt, Sudan, Uganda and Libya between 2005 and 2008 covering the conflict in Darfur, the looming struggle for oil in southern Sudan, Libya’s bizarre attempt at glasnost and the effects of climate change on the Nile ecosystem. During this time, he traveled down the length of the White Nile from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea through the entirety of Uganda, Sudan and Egypt. That six-month journey was the basis for his first book, The Black Nile. He is also the author of  The Poisoner of Bengal, the true story of a murder by plague in Jazz Age Calcutta.