David Wallace-Wells
Climate journalist and author
David Wallace-Wells is an American journalist who writes about climate change. His 2017 magazine essay grew into the book The Uninhabitable Earth.
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American Born 1982 in The Bronx, United States
About David Wallace-Wells
David Wallace-Wells was born in 1982 and is an American journalist known for his writing on climate change. His 2017 essay "The Uninhabitable Earth" ran in New York magazine and became the most-read article in its history. He later expanded it into the 2019 book The Uninhabitable Earth. He was earlier a deputy editor of The Paris Review, and later a columnist and deputy editor at New York, where he also covered the COVID-19 pandemic. He has also been a national fellow at New America. In March 2022 he joined The New York Times, where he was to produce a weekly newsletter and take on pieces for its magazine.