JEFF
GOODELL is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and a frequent contributor
to the New York Times Magazine.
Big Coal is Goodell's 4th book. He is
also author of the New York Times
bestseller
Our Story: 77 Hours That Tested Our Friendship and Our
Faith, based on the terrifying hours nine Quecreek miners spent
trapped underground; he appeared on Oprah to talk with the miners about
their experience. Goodell’s first book,
The Cyberthief and the
Samurai, was about the hunt for the notorious computer hacker Kevin
Mitnick. His memoir,
Sunnyvale: The Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family, was a New
York Times Notable Book.
Jeff lives in
Saratoga Springs, near Albany, N.Y.