Chanan Tigay is an award-winning journalist and nonfiction writer whose work has appeared in publications including Smithsonian magazine, the Atlantic, GQ, and The New Yorker. His first book, The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Bible, won the Anne & Robert Cowan Writers Prize. His next book, Serpents in the Garden, is forthcoming from Public Affairs. He is a recent fellow of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute and an associate professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University. His article on Aristides de Sousa Mendes appeared in the November 2021 issue of Smithsonian magazine.