Candice Millard

American author and former National Geographic editor — author of The River of Doubt, Destiny of the Republic, and Hero of the Empire — who writes narrative history about extraordinary people in extreme circumstances.

Creates the extreme-circumstance presidential narrative — Millard's method (finding the most dramatic, least-known episode in a historical figure's life and reconstructing it in full narrative detail) produced three of the most gripping works of presidential and imperial history.