Bill Gifford
Magazine writer and editor
Bill Gifford is a magazine writer and editor who covers aging, longevity and health science. He coauthored Outlive.
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About Bill Gifford
Bill Gifford is a magazine writer and editor whose work focuses on extraordinary athletes and cutting-edge health science, with a specialty in aging and longevity. He has long been a contributing editor at Outside magazine, and his pieces have also run in a range of other national publications and in Best American Sportswriting. He coauthored Outlive, described as a worldwide bestseller. Before that he wrote Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (Or Die Trying), a New York Times bestseller. His reporting has taken him from West Africa to Southeast Asia, and from the permafrost of Siberia to the big waves of Nazare, Portugal. A native of Washington, D.C., he lives in Salt Lake City, where he often skis or cycles in the mountains.